6 October 04
Three Things
1) I’m very tired, because last night I was in an automotive maintenance class until 11:15 pm (you may wonder what there is to maintain in a brand new car, and you’re right—I should have taken this class with my beat-up old Subaru).
2) I’m wondering whether to recommend that we at least consider Persepolis (thanks K.) for next year’s Campus Community Book Project (really, really important not to set off a new iteration of Iran-bashing), and will they go for a graphic novel?
3) I’m really disturbed by a new trend which says we have to vote online in as many places as possible to say that OUR candidate won a debate we believe was a tie (if we even watched it, which I didn’t, since I was learning to tell a distributor cap from a radiator). This place is getting weirder and weirder, like we’re being told to applaud on cue.
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This world would be laughably surreal were it not for the all-too-brutal results of ignoring what’s going on. Ai.
On a side note, I’ve found it interesting this week to learn that the reason Saddam Hussein continued to bluff about his weapons capability had little to do with America and much to do with detering Iran. After fighting a devastating war with that country to a draw, can he really be blamed for wanting the Iranians to think he had more capability than in fact he had? And who are we, Americans, half a world away to have assumed that our own lens on Iraq was the only valid one? It really points up just how subjective these matters can be, and why it is so important to look at problem nations from a multi-lateral perspective.