Sick and Tired

I've been sick in bed over the past couple of days and the good news is it has given me a chance to catch up on some reading. I finished Cormack McCarthy's The Road and you know, he has a lot of heart, but his style of prose bores me to fucking tears. My step-father got me onto reading him with No Country For Old Men and then I bought his play, The Stonesmason, but I think it might end for me there.

I've now moved onto A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice, the son of prolific horror writer Anne Rice. It has been highly reccomended to me.

I've also caught up on my many periodicals and I can't remember what magazine it was in, but it made such a great point about the stupidity of President Bush trying, yet again, to instill fear in us by continually saying that if we pull out of Iraq now, the terrorists will follow us home. Does our Preisdent really think that the terrorists don't already realize there are more Americans in America than in Iraq? What on Earth is stopping them from coming here now? We didn't go to Iraq because they were planning on attacking us. We went to Iraq because... oh wait, why did we go to Iraq?

Show of hands on whoever can answer that one.

Those who attacked us on 9/11 were the not the people who were in Iraq when we went there. At the time we arrived, there were as many members of terrorist organizations hiding out in Iraq as there currently are hiding out in the United States of America. Why Iraq? My God, if anywhere, why not Iran? Why not actually fight terror instead of taking out innocent civilians one by one? Hundreds of thousands of kids and women and men trying to do right by their families, shot down by us. And that's fighting terror somehow? We've killed more innocent people over there than they killed here.

If and when they do attack us on our own soil again, how will we ever look them in the face now and say they were wrong? After all, what choice did we leave them with? What the hell choice are we leaving the innocent people over there with but to join the terrorists to make sure they're not killed by us? We have successfully increased the numbers of those who hate us and will stop at nothing to see us dead tenfold.