Daily Archives: March 21, 2003

Friday Five

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1. If you had the chance to meet someone you’ve never met, from the past or present, who would it be?
Probably someone like St. Macrina or Emily Dickinson.

2. If you had to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be?
During the bringing of the Gospel to Ireland in the 5th-7th centuries

3. If you had to move anywhere else on Earth, where would it be?
Ireland or British Columbia or Washington State

4. If you had to be a fictional character, who would it be?
Either Anne of Green Gables or Hermione Granger

5. If you had to live with having someone else’s face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
I don’t know because the face wouldn’t be my own and I’m kind of fond of my face.

Jen’s Daily Fisking

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Some Thoughts on Democrats and Liberals and the War Protesting Going On

My response:
Re: your first paragraph: What we’re doing is also against the charter of the U.N., which governs disputes between nations. I see no reason why we shouldn’t be at war if all diplomatic efforts had been exhausted. However… they hadn’t. I have yet to see the Iraqis meet with *anyone* on this issue in talks. There’s also the fact that *none* of our tips to the weapons inspectors paid off, so unless Bush wants to argue human rights (which he really hasn’t mentioned in depth yet and this scares me because it *is* compelling — he just hasn’t looked at it yet), we have no legitimate reason for being over there.

Re: your comment that protestors are a bunch of psychos: Rush Limbaugh isn’t the best source to quote because he has an agenda. (Stick to news sites, not talking heads whose bark is bigger than their bite.) I’m protesting this war and I don’t support Saddam in the least. This ain’t a black and white issue.

Re; Rachel Corrie: Israel has committed quite a few human rights atrocities and it irritates me how people automatically assume that all Palestinians are Muslim fundamentalists when quite a few are Christians. (Tears down that “us” and “them” argument real fast, doesn’t it?) I applaud Rachel for standing up for what she believes in because she believed that the Israelis were wrong. *I* believe that the Israelis were wrong — I had classes on this conflict alone as a Religious Studies major in college. I’ve looked at both sides of the issue and both sides have made some big mistakes.

And for the record, I am a Democrat and a “liberal” (though back home I’m a “conservative” — interesting how labels shift depending on the company one keeps). I am morally certain, I don’t hate conservatism, I think capitalism has problems but we can work with them, I don’t hate people who have a clear idea of right and wrong, and I trust people who are confident in their faith and opinions… because I am one. I do, however, dislike those who generalize about others based on the rantings of people like Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Hannity, and their leftist equivalents.

So… I think I’ll echo Drina: quite a bit of unnecessary hostility going on here against Democrats and liberals. And you complain that I’m a little hostile toward Bush?

At least he didn’t say “they hate us because we’re free”.