Our National Anthem Follow-Up

So, in class we got to discuss our national anthem “papers”. Needless to say, I was not happy. Why? Cause we have some of the most unpatriotic dumbasses in my English class. First mistake I made was restating what my paper said. If anyone disagreed or gave a damn, they should have known what my paper said. Some dumb woman in my class countered me with “but it’s the people who aren’t in uniforms that are winning the wars.” I didn’t say anything, but I’m regretting that I didn’t, cause my teacher acted like it was good comeback. Really now, if you are stupid enough to believe that bullshit. You think politics are stopping terrorists? And of course, there’s always one guy in the class who always disagrees with everybody and puts words in your mouth. He asked me if I believed war was always the solution or the first act we should take. My response (not word for word. I rarely swear to people I don’t know), “Fuck no. If you can negotiate your way out of it, by all means. But I’d LOVE to see you try to negotiate with people like Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein.” Seriously, I’d fucking LOVE to see you try. I’m sorry, but the reality of it is that you can’t. Negotiations against people who are that commited DO NOT WORK!

Now, I should have expected this, I mean, it is Edmonds Community College and it IS Washington state. I’m in a pretty liberal place as it is. My real question is, when did the fucking hippies take over? Everywhere you go these days, it’s all the “make love (<== not literally) not war” attitude everywhere. I’m sorry people, it just doesn’t fucking work all the time. Especially in the major terrorist and communist run places. If China or South Korea launched a damn nuke at us, are you going to say “Hey China (or South Korea), hey. That hurt, could you please stop?” Do you honestly think that’d work? That’s like a child who never obeys his parents and his parents never punish him for doing wrong. All they do is constantly ask their child to stop acting badly without ever doing anything. Yes, war is terrible, war sucks. I’ll be the first to say, I sure as hell don’t want to go and die any more than anyone else. But this is reality. If we don’t do something, they’ll come back even harder. I’ve heard a few people remark on how they don’t understand why we’re in Iraq and Afghanistan and why we went to war. I mean, come on, they fucking ran planes into the Trade Towers. You just gonna sit there and watch? FUCK NO! The main problem about all this is that nothing personally happens to them. Sure it happens to our country and we can “band” together (if you can call our current state banding together. This is nothing like how our country banded together in WWII.), but the only reason you can still say all this propaganda bullshit about not going to war is because you didn’t lose anything personally from it. People these days have forgotten our nations history, and they’ve forgotten why we have what we have today. Sure we got bigger and better technology nowadays, but back in the old days, everyone knew reality. They all knew hardships and they knew what had to be done.

Another “argument” I’ve heard around is that we’re making our country appear very “warmonger-ish”. Anyone who understand ANYTHING about surviving as a country would not see us this way. If our country gets attacked (*cough* Trade Center *cough*) and we don’t do anything about. What is going to stop them from attacking us again? I mean, hey, we killed some-odd thousand people and America didn’t care or do anything. Lets blow the shit out of them again. Seriously, why not? I mean, we didn’t stop them before and we certainly didn’t show any initiative of stopping them. All lights are green man. If the said assailant was of larger caliber than the terrorist regime, and actually had access to Nuclear weapons, we’d have to worry about a lot more than cleaning up two destroyed buildings. Sure I may sound like someone who “doesn’t care about the people”. Don’t misunderstand me, I truly feel deeply sorry for those who lost loved ones. But what’s done is done. There’s nothing I can do about it. But what we CAN do is prevent something like this from happening again. And that is what all the stuff I’ve been saying helps do.

Another POOR argument that was brought up yesterday (and I mean VERY POOR) was “what makes American lives more important than say <insert other country, state, republic, etc.>” In all honesty, nothing. But you cannot sit there and tell me truthfully that you’d care more about 5 people dying in Africa than 5 people dying in your neighborhood. I’m sorry, human nature doesn’t work that way. It is in human nature to be selfish, and that would mean we put our American lives priority over others. I’m not saying that it’s right, but that’s just how it works. That’s how the people in charge see it and that’s how it’s done.

I have been trying to refrain from swearing in my blog posts, but I really am having a hard time from holding back on this one. Conversations like this just shouldn’t plain exist. Even the Bible has lots of death and war in it. God gave the Israelites permission to fight and KILL (*gasp*) people. When they took over the Promised Land, you know what God had them do? Destroy and KILL EVERYTHING! That meant no slaves for them (was commonplace back then). That way they would not be influenced by their slaves and newly acquired goods to believe in false gods. There was also the battle (forget what it’s called) where as long as Moses had his hands lifted towards Heaven, the Israelites would win, but whenever his hands dropped, they began to lose. They actually had two guys hold Moses’ hands up because he was getting tired. I think you get the idea. I could find a LOT more violent stuff in the Bible that I’m sure the average person doesn’t know about, but I think that will be enough. That all said, read the Bible sometime. It’s not all “raindrops and roses” either.

I know this is a very sensitive subject (which is why my teacher should have never made this an assignment) and you don’t have to like me. Can you believe all this branched out from a question as to whether we should change our national anthem to America the Beautiful? Never would have guessed in a million years.

~ by connway on June 1, 2008.