If you don't like politics, go away.

It looks like it will be a bleak four years. I can only hope that the anger and frustration some of us feel will serve to inspire some creative acts. Maybe the penultimate twenty first century war novel is about to be written...or maybe it will require the commission of yet more terrible acts of violence before that books author will be sufficiently inspired. Below are some modest and maybe too passively voiced considerations of the war effort.


Conceding the notion that there even could be such a thing as a 'war on terror', is there still some morally justifiable basis for our 'spreading of democracy'? Assuming that both those who do and do not support this re-globalization effort both maintain as their goal the improvement of global society, can we accomplish this goal in a morally satisfactory way by using violence? Dropping large bombs on Arab countries will eventually lead to our victory over Islamic fundamentalism (we simply have to thin their population sufficiently), but does that mean its a viable means to an end, or that it will not create some greater future problem? The point I'm trying to harp indirectly is this: our actions have serious consequences not only for ourselves but for our great-great-great...-great-grandchildren. Every action we take perpares the soil for these future generations, so it is important that we seed for fruitfull trees rather than salt the earth.