2012...

Well..so now, a pending deal is US troops will be out of Iraq by 2012 and out of cities' limits by June 30th 2009. So another 4 years of this crusade for democracy. It has been an ongoing war for the past 5 years. An estimate of the casualties as of August 2007 was around 1 033 000, an average close to 20 000 deaths per month. That's even more than the Rwanda genocide. So once again, another conflict with the Middle East. This time, religion is not the focus point. Remember the Crusades launched by the Church in the Middle Ages in order to Christianize the land? I believe we are doing the same..
Back in those times, the Church had power over the State. The Church was above everything and nothing was higher then it. There has always been a war between the two to have power so that the State may have power without having to go through the Church and its religious beliefs. It was also looking to bring the Christian religion to every corner of the world. So, they started doing Crusades in the Middle East, more precisely Jerusalem to take control of this city because it's sacred and other religious bullshit. There was a lot of a casualties and it went on for a long time with multiples crusades.

At the end of the Middle Ages, the State got stronger and stronger and overpowered the Church. So, State got stronger and Church weaker. Nowadays, nobody cares for what the religion is saying. It said no to gay marriages and protected sex. We are seeing a better openness towards gay marriages and sexual protection is starting at an early age.

So, after the US won the Cold War against the USSR, it was a win for democracy. It was democracy vs. communism. Communism fell. The goal for the USA from there on was to bring democracy to every country in the world.
Where I'm getting at, the quest for the American war is to bring democracy to the rest of the world, in the same fashion the Church used to do it. By force. Democracy is power to the people. So enforcing democracy upon a population and killing the leader goes against what it stood for correct? Enforcing liberty? It's the same for the crusades in the Middle Ages. Christianity is supposed about love and tolerance..if I remember what I was taught in first grade. Let's enforce the religion of love with wars and killing. Something's not right hey?

There's a small twist of religion doh. Bush made some references towards his religion and it was in his soul to bring liberty to the Iraqi freedom. They are still very intolerant versus the Muslim community. So there's like 2 ongoing wars: the one to bring democracy everywhere and another with the Muslims community.

Did we find new ways to deal with the indifference we might have with another ideology/religion? No. We are still using fighting to deal with stuff. You walk on my territory, I kill you. You are not thinking like me, I kill you. Imagine if we lived like that inside our own society. I would be standing on a god damn mountain with sniper riffles and rocket launchers all around me you fucking left wingers. Are we more sophisticated? No. We have cool new technologies like TV and Internet. We are trying to be more sophisticated but we're still the same Europeans from back then but with more advanced techniques.

I know I've talked about something similar to this. I'm just trying to show by different ways, we are not the all that advanced in term of thinking and acting. In inventions, yes we are, and by far. If you compare with the caveman, of course we are more advanced. We are not trying conquer everything like we used. In certain ways, we might have more tolerance for different people and such, but not that much. We have opened our horizons on certain things...such as regarding homosexuals. Yes, there are not seen as equals everywhere around the globe but that won't come overnight. But there's a lot of space left for improvement. When are we going to stop being scared of differences and come to terms of accepting them? Is it going to take a nuclear disaster and a lot of casualties to realize it? To cooperate together? To work as one? We need to understand how they think and respect their way of thinking without clouding our judgment with our ideology and emotions. That's not in a close future..somebody has to do the first step and neither knows how to walk yet..