Why does Anti-Semitism exit? How was Israel formed? Why do Arabs so despise the people who are living on that little strip of land? Why does the US give such support to the Israelis? Is there something we can do to stop this landslide of anger that will sink us into another war of global proportions? What's it like to live in an area where you or your family could be killed at any moment from hatred? Why would any one group of people live to tolerate this? Why? Why? Why?
Israel apparently carpet-bombed Lebanon today, disabling Beirut and killing an estimated 120 people in the process. Everyone but our country condemned the action. Times like these make me upset to be an American; fat, happy, overfed, living in my luxury and my sin, enjoying the freedoms that living in Rome can afford me. At the same time, I can't begin to imagine life where I worry that at a stop light gunmen will run up to my vehicle, drag me out, and shoot me and my family in the head in broad daylight, and get away with it. These are fears, that as an American, I don't have to worry about. Our men and women are out there defending those freedoms I take for granted every day. They're operating behind the scenes, working for me, the fat, complacent writer. What do I do? Hate the freedom I've been so lucky to be afforded, yet cling to it like a lifejacket if it was ever taken from me? Speak angrily at the leader of my country while failing to recognize that I've been given that right to do so only by the blood, sweat and tears of people whom I'll never meet? I hate being an American, or iconosizing what Americans are, yet I can't imagine being anything else. Does someone in France hate being French because their government is the world's wuss who gets beat up? Do they care? Is there a man in the Arab world who hates being of Arabic descent because of the actions of Zarquari? What about these foreign presidents? Don't they realize that all this escalation is exactly what the terrorist movements want? How do we appease these people and stop the death and dying? We all bleed the same blood, but we just look different on the surface...
I'm getting impassioned and loosing reason as I type. Anger and emotion are getting the best of me. I hate not understanding the fight that may drag us all in. I wish I knew more about why things are happening the way they are. Hell, bin Laden was financed and trained by the US in the '80s, only to attack us in the two decades. Why?
I was getting really upset about this at work, but I couldn't find the answers I needed, so I went outside and took a breather. I was graced by something bigger than me to find peace in a simple little family of birds. Quick thinking allowed me to snap a picture off. They apparently grew up in a nest on the telephone pole, and apparently had just hatched. These files may take a moment to load, but here it is, my moment of Zen:
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