Hi, all, I was watching the news tonight and various things about the war struck me:
1. They really *must* stop calling it "friendly fire". It kills people, which is even its purpose. Perhaps the epitome of an oxymoron. Whatever else it is, it ain't friendly. This has undoubtedly been pointed out hundreds of times before, but... 2. The parts of Afghanistan where the war is taking place look exactly like Mars to me. And the Afghan cities they show (at least on American TV) look like... well, cities on Mars. Red and rocky. [Sort of like the parts of Korea where stuff was happening 50 years ago.] Would that make OBL the Man from Mars? 3. It would appear that the people who wanted to "bomb Afghanistan back to the Stone Age" will be disappointed. The bombings forced the people in question *out* of caves and back into at least the 10th or 11th century. 4. All those shaggy, hollow-eyed, dehydrated, exhausted-looking "losers" of the battles who look *exactly* like the "winners" [I refer only to the locals here -- "our boys" all look clean, well-fed and healthy, except for the ones dead from friendly fire -- and the one American, Walker-Lindh, who's on the wrong side -- which category does he get to be in now?], except that the latter look happier and are making off for their villages laden with the arms that haven't been used. Yet. Sorry. I'll stop now. My head's spinning anyway. Walt
