How do we sleep while our beds are burning?

[sovay]

For whatever it is worth to history, I wish to register that I do not like finding out that we are suddenly at war with Iran. I do not need any more specters of annihilation, nuclear or otherwise. I get enough stress from my regular life.

(These Crusader fantasists. My entire lifetime. Their Armageddon wet dreams. Why will the sand not eat them alone.)

Comments

[kaffy_r]

Agreed. They are all motherfuckers - and I apologize to motherfuckers for using the term.

[aurumcalendula]

Ugh. I've yelled at my Republican congress people's voicemails on the off chance it does some good.

[gwynnega]

Indeed.

[chanter1944]

Seconded. You've summed up most of my thoughts on the matter, but far more eloquently than I could have managed had I tried.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I hate that time keeps going by and we keep watching these powerful assholes fighting wars that harm so many people, and things don't change.

On a lighter note, that song is very appropriate and also a banger, so many of their songs are! "Put Down That Weapon" comes to mind, also "We Resist". <3

[asakiyume]

Yes, another token on the huge pile of do-not-want

[selkie]

Fuck!
And there was a peppermint in THIS dryer either!!! It wasn’t even HIM!
I don’t mean to get off the point, because all we’ve ever had are land wars in Asia, but fuck!

[genarti]

This, this, this. It's sickening and enraging and I feel like I've been sickened and enraged nonstop for coming on 30 years now -- and it started long before that, that's just when I remember becoming aware of it -- and they remain smugly impervious and the sand hasn't eaten them yet. I hate it with every fiber.

[sabotabby]

Just pure rage.

[ashlyme]

You know, I thought back in the early nineties we'd put the demon of nuclear war behind us. Sorry about the language, but - I'd call them cunts but they lack both warmth and depth. I want these warmongers in hell.

"I wish to register that I do not like finding out that we are suddenly at war with Iran."

[kathmandu]

I'm with you on that.

[gullyfoyle]

Great-grandpa took shrapnel all along one side somewhere in Virginia before he deserted and went home to provide for his family. Dad was bombed and torpedoed at Pearl Harbor a couple months before his enlistment was up, but he made it through that particular "for the duration." Big brother number two was KIA in Vietnam when I was six; Dad said he'd pay for his other sons to go to Canada if necessary for them to avoid the draft. He didn't have to, fortunately. People urged me to enlist and go through Officer Training School, they said I'd prosper in the military. But that was 1983 and I refused to serve under Reagan. My son, 23, will NEVER serve under the current CinC. Public expression of my true feelings about *him* might get me prosecuted.

[cmcmck]

As a military historian married to another one and both of us the children of squaddies (his father fought in both world wars, mine in those grisly little post colonial ones)) we know just how much to hate this!

[minoanmiss]

I hear you SO MUCH. ugh. I was raised to dream of Armageddon and I'm still so disgusetd by the whole concept.