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Family Man
I am just a simple family man. I pay attention to the type of car I drive, the size and location of our house, schooling of my kids, the latest electronic gadget, where to go for our next ski trip. I enjoy reading John Grisham’s ‘The Firm’ rather than Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’. When I moved, I packed my ‘Comprehensive Guide to the Producers, Appellations and Wines’ and threw away ‘In Search of Excellence’. I read more about Beckham than Tony Blair and Bush combined.
I really shouldn’t give a damn about what Bush or Blair has to say. There was only one reason for me to read news. From 5:30pm when we began our daily drinking routine in the club to 2am in the morning when we either went home or went on to experience the oldest professional, there were times that the subjects of office politics, gossips, women, hi-fi, football, wines, cigars, cars, antiques or CDs may temporarily run out. At this point, some folks would invariably bring up a current issue. I would have had a hard time pretending to know what’s going on around us or what they were talking about if I didn’t read some news.
A war won’t bother me a bit. I don’t have any relatives in the army neither do I have any Muslim friends. Some say they may blow us with whatever WMD they have but I really doubt it. People are just plain stupid and don’t use their common sense. It is just like this story about 3 Arabs who were allegedly being overheard in a café ·hen planning some sorts of terrorist attack. The Florida highway had to be closed for 17 hours after one of the waitress alerted the police. Oh man, did these Arabs really discuss their plan in English?
Now if Saddam has any WMD, he will, in all likelihood, use them within the first 2 hours after Baghdad is under attack. Unless of course we drop the Big One, it is practically not feasible to take over Baghdad in a matter of 2 hours. So there is one eventuality, Saddam will start firing whatever short-range, mid-range, long-range missiles he has carrying possibly nuclear or biological warheads. One doesn?t even have to foresee this scenario because this will be the only scenario.
But we are safe.
The US administration may not be as intelligent as we wish them to be, they may not be as determined to fix their own failing economy as sending their fellow Americans to a war which only they themselves and the Brits consider to be a just war, they may not even know as much history as a Grade 10 student. But certainly before they attempt this formidable feat to eliminate terrorism - something no one in the history of humankind was able to achieve, they must know that any responses from Saddam will be well within their calculations and will be effectively neutralized. They wouldn’t risk it if they are not confident. I am therefore fully convinced that all these missiles, even if fired, will be successfully intercepted.
However, as to the follow-up question: ‘The US has to be confident that any missiles fired by Saddam or any terrorist acts committed by Saddam in response to an invasion can be successfully intercepted, within a short period of time. For if not, the war will easily get out of hand. But if these measurers are in place, can they not be implemented without a war?’ This I don’t know.
As a simple man, why am I bother to make all these noises? Idiot wind or just a big bodily wind?
I write becasue I believe all these killings are really insane. We don’t kill a child just because he is holding a Koran instead of a Bible. I write because I hate to be manipulated by all these dirty politicians. No matter what ideology one holds, no matter what God one believes. There can’t be any God who teaches us to hit someone before he hits you. I don’t know of any God who teaches us to retaliate. These values are universial - it makes no differences, Occidental or Orient. I am a simple family man. I am not educated enough to preach but I know you understand. “I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.” ~ Socrates (469-399 BC)
Posted on September 29, 2002 05:15 AM
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