It's a Good Thing that I'm not in Charge
Watching Bush's speech last night and reading about the movement of warships into position is making me ill. I've always been something of a bleeding heart liberal in terms of human rights, though when it comes to long-term welfare, I'm not such a proponent (I mean, really, get off your ass and stop spending my money). But when it comes to human life and the preservation thereof, my heart bleeds (no, not black and gold as my high school would like you to think). There's nothing that makes killing another human being okay to me. Nothing. I know that plenty of people have done many a horrible thing to other people and they should be punished. No doubt about that.

But, I can't get my head around knowingly encouraging someone to kill someone else, no matter what they've done to 'deserve' it. I couldn't issue the order to send big guns and who knows what else into the middle east. I couldn't sign the death warrant for those who helped the terrorists kill 6,000 of my countrymen. I just can't, because murder, under any circumstances and for any reason, state-sponsored or over a pair of tennis shoes, is not right.

Call me un-American if you'd like but if you think about it, you might see the truth in what I'm saying. Murder is murder and it's not something you're ever supposed to do. Never mind that for the terrorists, dying is their moment in the sun, their ticket to glory. Imagine how pissed off they'd be if we find them and instead of killing them, sentence them to rot in jail, no glory, no fiery death, just the chance to turn into angry old men thinking about what they've done and how (in their eyes) they have failed.

So I guess it's good that I'm not in charge because I couldn't make the call to activate the people to fly the planes to drop the bombs to kill the people (innocent and otherwise) who knew or might have known the guys who hijacked the planes and changed the world forever.