liadanslyre

last couple days

i've had an eventful couple of days. i had a stressful weekend with some enjoyable highlights. seeing the kay's was great. laying in bed on what seemed like an endless saturday morning; candles lit, surrounded by books, and cacooned in my down comforter was wonderful as well.

sunday, i threw (in conjunction w/ my oldest girlfriend laurie) a baby shower for jess. we had it at my mom's and i think it went fairly well. the measurement is that jess felt loved and special (at least she said she did).

one thing that i have noticed is that when there is a significant accumulation of snow; i feel as though i am in a movie- watching myself travel through life. snow insulates sound and everything seems to happen in slow motion. me gusta snow. best yet, charles is making lotsa bones off the snow.

insomnia

last night, i did not sleep well. i arrived home and watched a show on the history channel that was very disturbing.

it was about the serb guerilla leader arkan. he was directly responsible for much of the genocide that happened in the early to mid 1990's in the Balkan wars. he is dead now and speculation surrounding his asasignation was tied to this monster. more on him in a moment.

both these guys are really bad dudes.

it just got me thinking about american foreign policy. then i got nauseated. then i couldn't goto sleep. i know that there is valor in non aggression and pacifism and that it has a big role in the history of the evangelical church. but our country's previous policies of isolationism that allows for the genocide of whole people groups is not noble. it is self serving.

if you are reading this and want to ask me if i think america should be the world's police man- the answer is yes. i think we should stick up for the little guy. nobody else does.

the cliche "never again"- referring to the pacifism/isolationism that allowed the holocaust to happen tires me. not b/c i disagree with it- but b/c it has already happened again. our government knowingly avoids (with other able bodied countries) conundrums out of self preservation all the time. case in point. 800,000 people dead in a matter of months. within the last decade it has happened again and continues to happen (although i am not literate enough in world affairs to cover them all here- but i found a site i will be poking around for awhile).

and by the way- i don't mean to sound like i'm bashing all american policy. i actually love being american. i really do.

this may sound like a rant- but please interject if i should be think about this from another angle. i don't have my mind all made up- even though this post may lead you to believe that i do...

coming soon-
why the hague tribunal is a crock of shit.