A sombering sight.
Posted on January 26th, 2007 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
I was at the gym on the eliptical machine listening to Justin Timberlake tell me about love when I looked up and saw a scene from Bagdad on the television. I was so surprised at what I saw that I almost feel off the machine.
I saw US soldiers walking with their machine guns following a tank while people rioted, threw things and burned cars around them.
Not too surprising?
What surprised me is that I saw the exact same thing in Belfast in 1986. The uniforms were a little darker green, but it was the same exact thing - a foreign country attempting to keep the peace while people riot around them.
Holy crap. Is Bagdad the new Belfast?
Filed under: Going out on a limb
It is pretty scary….
And scary too that I finished you MEME!!!!
What a great question. We could probably ask if Bagdad is the new a lot of places; the futility of it all feels so familiar.
I distinctly remember being told at school that studying History was useful because it might help us avoid making the same old mistakes over and over…So I’m assuming politicians don’t study history.
Angela
Pendullum - that is scary!
Jocelyn - I have a hard time muddling through the futility to get to some hope. The one nice thing is that things are some what different in Belfast, South Africa, etc. now. Maybe there’s hope.
Angela - I think we forget history until we’re knee deep in it and can only respond, not act.
and something awful in the pit of my stomach makes me think they’re only getting started.
Kevin - Let’s hope not.