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Monday, June 28, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Red Dawn
This has absolutely nothing to do with the Thailand Reds, and EVERYTHING to do with the brilliant 80's action/drama starring Patrick Swayze, RIP, and Charlie Sheen. If anyone hasn't seen it, the plot goes something like this:
It's the 80's, RAD! Uh oh, it's an alternate less rad 80's with a big (read actual/realistic/etc.) commie scare, bummer. Somewhere in the Midwest those damn commies drop in on a high school and take it over. Everyone knows Midwest high schools are basically the same as fortresses. Too bad the reds didn't plan for a Swayze-Sheen beat down 'Merica style, FREEDOM!! The kids find guns and fight off communism, hooray!!!!!
SOOOOOOOOO, lately I've been thinking about how the normal Afghan citizens must have been feeling for these past 9-ish years of occupation. I'm guessing it's a lot like those kids in middle America felt when the reds dropped in.
After reading "Where Men Win Glory - The Odyssey of Pat Tillman" by Jon Krakauer I think about all of the harsh realities of war. If anyone hasn't read the book, do it. Bottom line is that since WW2 over 50% of all US wartime fatalities have been from friendly fire. On top of that, it seems like just as many innocent civilians are being killed in Afghanistan as terrorists. It has also been reported that of the people killed in unmanned drone attacks, 30% are civilians.
I liken this terrorism crackdown to an alternate reality of my own creation. Imagine it's the 90's. It's exactly the same as the one we experienced, and because of that a young man named Michael Fay decides to spraypaint a wall, in Singapore. The punishment in Singapore for graffiti is "caning", a brutal spanking with a bamboo cane. What if instead of just caning Michael Fay, Singapore sent caners into America and tried to find all of the troublemakers who might potentially deface their walls. The problem is, teenagers in the states all tend to dress alike, and look alike, and talk alike, so they end up caning some straight A students and other good kids. Kids who would have otherwise never thought twice about Singapore. Now those kids HATE Singapore. They got caned for no reason! Maybe Singapore would have been better off if they had just spent all of that time and money patrolling their own streets instead of making new enemies. . .
It's the 80's, RAD! Uh oh, it's an alternate less rad 80's with a big (read actual/realistic/etc.) commie scare, bummer. Somewhere in the Midwest those damn commies drop in on a high school and take it over. Everyone knows Midwest high schools are basically the same as fortresses. Too bad the reds didn't plan for a Swayze-Sheen beat down 'Merica style, FREEDOM!! The kids find guns and fight off communism, hooray!!!!!
SOOOOOOOOO, lately I've been thinking about how the normal Afghan citizens must have been feeling for these past 9-ish years of occupation. I'm guessing it's a lot like those kids in middle America felt when the reds dropped in.
After reading "Where Men Win Glory - The Odyssey of Pat Tillman" by Jon Krakauer I think about all of the harsh realities of war. If anyone hasn't read the book, do it. Bottom line is that since WW2 over 50% of all US wartime fatalities have been from friendly fire. On top of that, it seems like just as many innocent civilians are being killed in Afghanistan as terrorists. It has also been reported that of the people killed in unmanned drone attacks, 30% are civilians.
I liken this terrorism crackdown to an alternate reality of my own creation. Imagine it's the 90's. It's exactly the same as the one we experienced, and because of that a young man named Michael Fay decides to spraypaint a wall, in Singapore. The punishment in Singapore for graffiti is "caning", a brutal spanking with a bamboo cane. What if instead of just caning Michael Fay, Singapore sent caners into America and tried to find all of the troublemakers who might potentially deface their walls. The problem is, teenagers in the states all tend to dress alike, and look alike, and talk alike, so they end up caning some straight A students and other good kids. Kids who would have otherwise never thought twice about Singapore. Now those kids HATE Singapore. They got caned for no reason! Maybe Singapore would have been better off if they had just spent all of that time and money patrolling their own streets instead of making new enemies. . .
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