Warp wrote:
> andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93n-EmGknEU
> 
>   Maybe the means are not always correct, but at least someone is *trying*
> to do something about the world's problems instead of just sitting on their
> asses doing nothing and just hoping that the problems will solve themselves
> with enough appeasing and concessions.
> 
You know.. On some of the more frustrating days, I hate ever watching 
the Gundam series of anime. But, I damn well wish about 90% of the 
frakking idiots I have to deal with in my life, and most of the 
politicians did, and understood it. Its not enough, sadly, to just "do 
something". Anything you do is likely to piss someone off in the 
process, witness the reaction to Obama deciding to ditch Iraq, but try 
to *actually* do something about Al Queda, so that 5 years from how 
Afghanistan isn't worse than it was when we started, with *more* 
terrorists, with new allies in neighboring countries, and an ever 
greater desire to blow something up again. Many want it to just be over. 
It will never be, so long as a) radicals are still in power, b) their 
people still have no right to change things, and c) the easiest method 
of keeping their people in check is to blame everything from lack of 
rain to their kids not doing what they are told, on the "West", and 
offering as a solution, "Lets blow those infidels up!". Its like a world 
wide version of Survivor. You hope like hell that the ones that outlast, 
outlive, etc., are good guys, but.. all too often its the sneaky 
assholes that send other people off to do stupid things, which end up at 
the top, and who ever it left standing, when the dust settles, goes 
right back to trying to "fix" things by shooting each other, starting 
more wars, blaming each other for things that are their own damn faults, 
and generally never learning a damn thing in the process.

Occasionally we have a brief respite. One gained either via killing 
every last idiot with a bad idea (which usually lasts less than a 
century, due to someone rising up to kick out the people that did it), 
or by allowing nearly *everything*, which Rome tried, until it got 
converted to mono-theism, and the US tried, before the religious right 
started trying to convert it to mono-theism, and so on. Mostly, that 
later path works, but it invariably pisses off delusional, dangerous, 
sometimes mentally disturbed, but *protected* people. Basically, one 
falls because the moderates rise up to destroy the people that killed 
all the crazies. The other falls, but more slowly, because no one is 
allowed to just kill all the crazies, and sometimes they get enough 
power to derail progress and start purging/disempowering the sane people.

It helps though if the people you are trying to purge are a) ignorant, 
b) willing to give up, and c) able to be directed towards absurd 
internal stupidities, and minor social issues, while ignoring everything 
else. A isn't accurate, save in small pockets. B is even less true, with 
an upsurge in people saying, "This is bullshit!". And C... Well, sadly, 
that one a lot of people still fall for, witness this year's early start 
on the delusional defense against the non-existent war on a pagan 
holiday, that was stolen and renamed, Christmas.

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