I meant to post this yesterday, and it just slipped away from me…
US military casualties in 3 years: 2318
Coalition casualties: 207
Iraqi military/police casualties: 4294
Incalculable number of civilian casualties.
(from iCasualties.org)
Rather than reminisce about how three years ago I was full of rage and anger, and how time has ground all of the outrage out of me, and how now I’m just tired and disaffected from the whole thing, I think I shall just let PZ Myers do so for me:
“This is how the monsters win, you know. They launch horror after horror, and as long as we have our electricity and orange juice and the quiet comforts of our homes, after a while we stop flinching, we just sit benumbed, we tell ourselves, “I’ll rouse myself for the next really big one,” and we remind ourselves that we couldn’t stop the last war, so how can we be expected to stop the next one? We tell ourselves that the democratic way to stop this ongoing nightmare is to elect better leaders at the next election (always the next, it rarely seems to be this one), and then we vote for soft, rotten representatives who, with rare exceptions, simply surrender to the insanity.
“So I’m going for a walk.
“I’m a monster, too.”