This is a time of confusion, a time for retrospection, a time for soul searching.
No kidding, mighty.
The world is a very complex and dangerous place at this precise moment in time because the history that is being written could go in so many different directions, some good and some not so good.
But I'm optimistic. Not in a rah-rah style but in the sense that I have this intuitive notion that all over the world eyes are getting opened. People want to control their own destinies free from despots, terror, and of war. It is this push that I think will save us.
I think that in the ME, people are beginning to think--despite their hatred for us--that their destiny as illiterate, poverty-stricken, and oppressed is not necessarily carved in stone, that there is hope for them. Parents I think are imagining that their children will have a better future in store for them post-Saddam. At least I hope so. Otherwise, the whole venture was a stupid waste of blood, time, and money.
Maybe Lennon was right, but maybe he was also wrong. We can imagine a better, peaceful world but to get there we must also do what needs to be done. I'm hoping that the Iraq war was the shove that took us from simply imagining a better future for the poor downtrodden slobs to actually helping build it.
I feel like we took baby-steps to a better world, but we'll see. It'll be along time before we know for sure, and lots of arguments both ways as we go down that twisting road. |
