ok, so it would seem that we’re 99.99% definitely going to war.
so how do we respond when faced with an inevitability such as this?
i think that we can only respond with hope. which might sound terribly naive, but what other recourse do we have?
here are some of my naive hopes:
we can hope that the war will be brief and relatively bloodless.
we can hope that soldiers and civilians on both sides will be able to return to normal lives at some point in the near future.
we can hope that government leaders will stop slandering each other (especially when they’re allies…), and that government leaders will start acting like responsible adults and not like children at a playground with name-calling and petty, petulant behaviour.
we can hope that with the election of a new palestinian prime-minister that the peace process between israel and palestine will actually be able to move forward.
we can hope that the palestinians will at some point in the foreseeable future actually have a homeland, and that israel and palestinian will settle into a mutually beneficial detente.
we can hope that the diplomatic damage done by this whole debacle will not be too serious, and that the people in charge will realize that strong, multilateral (and not petulantly driven…) institutions are in everyone’s best interest.
we can hope that america and it’s allies stop slinging mud at each other.
we can hope that there won’t be any more large-scale terrorist attacks.
those are some of my naive hopes as we head into war.
and i’m in melbourne with a day off, so i’m going to go and look at the flying foxes in the botanical garden. whenever i look at the flying foxes with their giant wingspans, swooping from tree to tree, everything in the world seems alright, even if it isn’t.
moby