Fie on jingoism
Aug. 10th, 2006 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jan_andreaJust got this entry (anonymous, of course) in my guestbook:
"The cost of war=the price of freedom. I'd rather pay for my children's future now then know they'd not have a safe one to look forward to. I've removed your link after getting what I needed from your patterns. I can not support someone who doesn't support our country, our troops, and our world. God bless you."
My reply:
I'm sorry you feel that way. Of course, in using my patterns, you're not actually giving me any "support" as such, since I receive no benefit from people downloading stuff from my site... it's actually somewhat the opposite. If you want to use me and then remove my link, that's entirely your perogative.
I hope none of your kids die in this war, btw. The current war in Iraq had *nothing* to do with terrorism. If that had been Bush's agenda, he should have invaded Saudi Arabia (where 19 of the 20 hijackers came from), but that wasn't the motive. I'm sorry you can't seem to grasp the difference.
And, of course, you're entirely wrong about my not supporting "our world". I am not "my country, right or wrong," but feel that war is not the answer, especially when the provocation isn't from a nation, but a terrorist organization, which cannot (as we have seen in the last 5 years) be stopped in a military operation that targets innocent civilians. Bush is making far more terrorists in his little war than he will ever kill.
Fie, I say. Grammar aside, she's clueless, or at least, completely misled by Bush & Co's erroneous assertions that Iraq had anything to do with Al Qaeda or terrorism. Second, she's failing in her own object lesson -- she doesn't want to "support" me, but she doesn't mind *using* me. Very Christian of her, I'm sure. I just wish I knew where she'd come from (probably a link on The Babywearer) so that I could figure out who she was and suspend any of *my* business with her, should I happen to have any. I'd prefer not to support jingoist idiots who think "support our troops" = sending them to die in a pointless war.
ETA: The only thing on my site that would lead her to the conclusion that I don't "support our country, our troops, and our world", by the way, is my "Cost of the War in Iraq" ticker. Oh, and I have an essay or two from right after 9/11, but there's nothing particularly damning about those, either. So her entire bitch seems to be that I have a link that says the war has cost about $306 billion US. Which isn't even a political statement. Just a fact. So, whatever. She's a twit.
"The cost of war=the price of freedom. I'd rather pay for my children's future now then know they'd not have a safe one to look forward to. I've removed your link after getting what I needed from your patterns. I can not support someone who doesn't support our country, our troops, and our world. God bless you."
My reply:
I'm sorry you feel that way. Of course, in using my patterns, you're not actually giving me any "support" as such, since I receive no benefit from people downloading stuff from my site... it's actually somewhat the opposite. If you want to use me and then remove my link, that's entirely your perogative.
I hope none of your kids die in this war, btw. The current war in Iraq had *nothing* to do with terrorism. If that had been Bush's agenda, he should have invaded Saudi Arabia (where 19 of the 20 hijackers came from), but that wasn't the motive. I'm sorry you can't seem to grasp the difference.
And, of course, you're entirely wrong about my not supporting "our world". I am not "my country, right or wrong," but feel that war is not the answer, especially when the provocation isn't from a nation, but a terrorist organization, which cannot (as we have seen in the last 5 years) be stopped in a military operation that targets innocent civilians. Bush is making far more terrorists in his little war than he will ever kill.
Fie, I say. Grammar aside, she's clueless, or at least, completely misled by Bush & Co's erroneous assertions that Iraq had anything to do with Al Qaeda or terrorism. Second, she's failing in her own object lesson -- she doesn't want to "support" me, but she doesn't mind *using* me. Very Christian of her, I'm sure. I just wish I knew where she'd come from (probably a link on The Babywearer) so that I could figure out who she was and suspend any of *my* business with her, should I happen to have any. I'd prefer not to support jingoist idiots who think "support our troops" = sending them to die in a pointless war.
ETA: The only thing on my site that would lead her to the conclusion that I don't "support our country, our troops, and our world", by the way, is my "Cost of the War in Iraq" ticker. Oh, and I have an essay or two from right after 9/11, but there's nothing particularly damning about those, either. So her entire bitch seems to be that I have a link that says the war has cost about $306 billion US. Which isn't even a political statement. Just a fact. So, whatever. She's a twit.
