Random stuff

8:40 PM
The peacekeeping rages onward, Americans and Arabians trying to help one another as well as kill one another. I hate hearing about hostages and I hate hearing about Americans dying while trying to help people who appear to need it.

10:49 PM
Sometimes I imagine that I am young and am over there as a soldier or perhaps an officer. I imagine myself either fighting or designing strategies for urban warfare. I know it would scare the fucking hell out of me, but I imagine being there helping the Iraqis that need help. But then I get this sense from reading the papers and online news sites that they don’t want our help. There is certainly a number of them who don’t because they keep firing rocket propelled grenades, and strapping TNT around kids and sending them to where the coalition soldiers are.

Fundamentalism is to blame, partly I imagine. Blindly following someone who spouts dogma, perhaps even warped dogma to suit his own needs. I suppose leaders, especially those who seem to us to be evil, have an agenda and so they bend reality and scripture to fulfill that agenda. I hear about how the Islamic religion is a peaceful religion and in fact there is apparently no where within the Islamic “bible” that mentions the inferiority of women and the subsequent treatment—as if they were not human. I could be wrong, and probably am, but if this is true then you have to wonder just what did some woman some many centuries ago do to some leader? Castrate him with a hunting knife? That would piss me off, of course.

I don’t really know what fundamentalism is. I mean, it does seem apparent. Yet is the fundamental part of a thing its base, its foundation? So isn’t fundamentalism just getting back to basics? I then don’t believe that there is fundamentally anything wrong with fundamentalism. It’s how the base or foundation of the Islamic religion (for example) is interpreted. But then, if some holy leader (or evil bastard, we like to say) reinterprets the scripture, or the foundation of his religion to suit his agenda, would it not then just be called progressivism rather than fundamentalism? To reinterpret is to put a ‘new’ spin on something, or so I would imagine.