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Mar. 26th, 2003 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deliriumcrowSo when leaving my art class early this morning, I noticed that someone had stenciled in white paint on the pebbled walls of the building "war is Terror", with a skull in the middle. I was pleased. We've had various other things scrawled on the grounds, mostly in chalk, protesting the war. Oddly, the Jewish population seemd to take it as an attack when they first showed up, according to the campus paper. Probably because one of Ariel Sharon's ministers came to speak at the campus that week. I don't know, I was confused. And in the tunnels that run between the buildings underground, someone had written anti war messages in black marker. (They've since been painted over)
And a thing. I know traditional warfare had its civilian casualties, but there's something to be said for meeting the opposing army in a field far away from the civilians, or as far as you can reasonably get, at a pre-arranged time, standing in lines, and slaughtering each other like gentlemen. Seeing all these photos of murdered civilinas, killed because we decided that it would be a good idea to blow up thir town and march through it instead of facing the army in the open.... Really makes the old ways seem that much better. And yes, I know people did blow up towns, murder, rape, loot, cause havok, be crude and ungentlemanly, whatever, but you know, that wasn't the main battle. They didn't look for random citizens to shoot, or whatever happened to be moving, they looked for the armies, dressed in bright colors so you couldn't mistake them.
And a thing. I know traditional warfare had its civilian casualties, but there's something to be said for meeting the opposing army in a field far away from the civilians, or as far as you can reasonably get, at a pre-arranged time, standing in lines, and slaughtering each other like gentlemen. Seeing all these photos of murdered civilinas, killed because we decided that it would be a good idea to blow up thir town and march through it instead of facing the army in the open.... Really makes the old ways seem that much better. And yes, I know people did blow up towns, murder, rape, loot, cause havok, be crude and ungentlemanly, whatever, but you know, that wasn't the main battle. They didn't look for random citizens to shoot, or whatever happened to be moving, they looked for the armies, dressed in bright colors so you couldn't mistake them.
