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Jan. 15th, 2006 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somedaybitchpeople should be careful what they wish for. we may decide to listen, take our toys and go home, never to be heard from again.
eta: my generation is the largest in this country. i lived as a constant target of nuclear annihilation for the first 25 years of my life so that Western Europe wasn't a constant target of Soviet occupation. so really, don't tell me what Americans don't understand.
want to protest the air strike in Pakistan? golden. if the CIA's intel was faulty, and they knew it was faulty, and they weren't working with the permission of the Pakistani government, then i'm going to protest the air strike as well. but please don't use it as a platform to make a sweeping condemnation of my country's citizens when the issue was a specific action of the current administration.
i'd love the rest of the world to step up to the plate. but they don't. and they don't because they think it's not their place. and i disagree.
eta: my generation is the largest in this country. i lived as a constant target of nuclear annihilation for the first 25 years of my life so that Western Europe wasn't a constant target of Soviet occupation. so really, don't tell me what Americans don't understand.
want to protest the air strike in Pakistan? golden. if the CIA's intel was faulty, and they knew it was faulty, and they weren't working with the permission of the Pakistani government, then i'm going to protest the air strike as well. but please don't use it as a platform to make a sweeping condemnation of my country's citizens when the issue was a specific action of the current administration.
i'd love the rest of the world to step up to the plate. but they don't. and they don't because they think it's not their place. and i disagree.
