Happy Patriot Day!! ;D

[prog]

Mostly what I remember is posting on a local friend's mailing list about how I was rather looking forward to seeing our special ops troops in action in the mountains of Afghanistan, describing them as terrifying cyborg commandos who would show the bad guys real fear and get the job done. I certainly didn't feel that, a few months into the operation, they'd get their resources yanked and rerouted.

Another of my friends, at the time, blogged that it reminded him of the climax of Watchmen, and I knew what he meant and I kind of hoped so too, that this would be a catalyst to a new sort of international unity. For a while it really felt like it could happen.

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[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

If everyone were capable of dealing with a common enemy equally, I could see that. But we can't, so all I see is a wider gap between the haves with their bigger-ass weapons and the have-nots with their lesser ones having to still answer to the big guys holding the cards.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I would have far preferred being on the fat end of a benevolent hegemony to what we have now.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I liked the first subject line better, especially with that icon.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Oh, all right.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't mean you had to change it back. I just suspected you modified due to concern over offending people so I thought you might like to know I thought it worked. *sparklers*!

[prog.livejournal.com]

Not so much offense as that I get tired of snideness pretty quickly, even when it comes from myself.

I made a separate and entirely acid post earlier today that I ended up marking private. It felt good to write, though.