i'm posting here because the other blog doens't seem to work. ugh.


americans go to the polls today, and i sure as hell hope that kerry wins. for whatever promises both candidates say, i discount that, because everyone does it to win an election, even in school. so i'll just go by his track record in life, which is that he did serve his country in vietnam, and was decorated for it. bush, and cheney on the other hand, both evaded draft, which although was quite a common thing during those times of upheaval, is something that works against them now. bush had a hard-headed plan to go into iraq and afghanistan to topple their regimes, but after succeeding, what do you do to ensure the country doesn't plunge into more turmoil? obviously this never crossed their minds, and because of all their bumbling ways, 1081 american soldiers have died in iraq. for what? for freedom? for justice? for peace? the iraqi's have neither, lives are being loss daily, and resentment against american intervention is rising.


how about the report about the wmd in iraq by this british diplomat last year? the uk went to war with his report, and it turned out to be false, and he took his own life. this war is crazy, and everyone is being dragged down with it. 'either you're with us or you're not', so goes the infinite wisdom of bush. when you see the hostages weep and beg for their lives, what matters more? hundred of years later, historians will probably write about man's inhumanity against man, how one man's so-called quest can impact other people's lives, how this veil of terror and the second iron curtain fell just fifteen years after the first one was lifted. this sounds like ahab's search for moby dick isn't it, the vengeful search for a damned beast, the useless strive to find and slay this entity that can never be destroyed. just look into your country's literature mr bush; herman melville was a genius.


and i'm suddenly horrified at the similarity of the story in moby dick and what is happening now. it only hit me just. ishmael thus stands for the world, queequeg symbolises then troops and the relief workers sent there, ahab is bush and fedulla(i forget the spelling) is osama. that part when fedulla stands in the shadow of ahab and reads the future in his palm and how he predicted the way ahab would die( by a rope, and that his ship would be a hearse). it's just too horrifying to think any further.