This weekend has been rather depressing.
Some of you may not know the left wing ‘Zealot’ that many consider me to be. I cannot stand conservatives, and I am staunchly against most of the USA’s policies… It’s funny, if you will look at my first blogs, quite a bit of fire and spice amongst them.
Admittedly, I was a narrow minded fool, and I took all Americans for ignorant/arrogant warmongering conservatives, merely because of the fact that I have never had a day to day interaction with them. Several months on, and I know this is not the case because of my friends here at JU.
In all honesty, I consider myself to be an idiot for having the feelings I did against Americans… The qualms I have are not with the people, but with the government – fortunately Mr. Wardell was kind enough to point out that it’s the people who select the government anyway, so I do still dislike the US general public immensely, but I have grown up a bit, and I approach every situation with a bit more of an open mind.
I feel like I a going to get remonstrated for what I am about to say, but really, I don’t care. I am so mad that Al Quada have hit targets in Spain… They did this because Spain chose to send troops to Iraq and have generally been a staunch supporter of the US. Surely Al Quada can recognise the fact the countries like Spain and Australia merely support the US because of political pressure? I.e. Australia could kiss free trade agreement good-bye if we didn’t support, and Spain was probably going for reconstruction contracts. We only have ourselves to blame for bowing to this political pressure, but when the big kid knocks; you give him what he wants.
I thought the enemy of Al Quada is USA, and everyone else was just secondary. Al Quada has proved otherwise, and this is quite possibly the worst move they could have entertained. Europe was by no means supporters of Al Quada, however, any chance of redemption and peace is out the window. I suppose what I am trying to say is, instead of hitting a European interest, they should have stuck to ataching the American interests.
No one will have any tolerance for this rubbish now… I always thought that there would be hope for the world while Europeans were still looking through rose tinted glasses. The Europeans must now realise that as long as they support the US like such, they are susceptible to attacks as well. As an Australian, my biggest fears have just been realised – whether Al Quada can be bothered with us, I suppose that remains to be seen, but we must not discount it after this.
It’s also important for the US to realise that Spain has seen this death, not because of their oppression of Al Quada, or their support of Israel, it’s because they supported the USA.
This War on Terror is losing its shade everyday – its becoming more black and white, the us vs. them mentality is sinking in. The Jihad’s and various Intifada’s will never stop, America as we know it will never give in, and I am very afraid for humanity.
Peace.