Such meaningless shit!

A fellow aikidoka earlier posted the song American Soldier - Toby Keith on Facebook.

Beside my Brothers and my Sisters I will proudly take a stand

When liberty's in jeopardy I'll always do what's right.
I'm out here on the front lines, sleep in peace tonight.

Beautiful words, but I can't find anything right with this war! American young boys is sent to a war that seem like it will never end! Not just American, but soldiers from all over the world. they die for no reason, and as far as I know, there is not end to this.

Of course terrorism should not exist, but is the best thing really to send out young men?

Most of them (I don't say all as I guess there is probably someone who loves this, but not all), would probably rather stay home with their families rather than fight this meaningless war, as it has came to be.

George W. Bush started it 9 years ago, and there is still no end, and I really hope Obama will succeed better, and that soon.

And I can't call in sick on Mondays when the weekend's been too strong,
I just work straight through the holidays,
And sometimes all night long.

Think of that the next time your work feel like crap, some has it so much worse than you, and not because they themselves have gotten themselves into it, but they do it for you, for your liberty. For the freedom that the whole western world say they stand for.

I'm just trying to be a father,
Raise a daughter and a son,
Be a lover to their mother,

And these are the people who does it, no different from you or me or anyone else. There are families all over the world, not knowing whether their fathers, husbands, sons (or wifes, mothers, daughters for that case) will be coming home alive, or even at all.

Put life in a whole new perspective huh?

Analysing Obama

Todays school work includes a assignment on analysing a speech by Obama, unfortunate, the present President of the United States, does not follow the rules of speeches. I thought that after analysing speeches by Tony Blair and George W. Bush, this would not be to hard, and that I could maybe even get a really good grade, but no sir no, of course not.

The speech (I will not read the whole one) is addressed the Muslim world and the tensions between the American and the Muslim/Arab world.
And boy does that guy try to tamper with peoples emotions!
It reeks Pathos from this speech!

He is honored to be there, there has to be mutual respect from the two sides, he is bringing up history of the two sides, hi brings up his own childhood in an attempt to get the audience on his side, his own personal history and how he has Muslims in his family from Kenya, and what a great way to make him and the audience he is addressing a "us", a great way to make him a part of the Muslim world too, even though he is a Christian, and he is appealing to the Muslims idea of not killing Muslim, he is trying to be seen as a Muslim in the eyes of the extremists, and not a Christian and therefore not a treath.

I have as I said, not read the whole speech, but the assignment was on parts of it, but I will link you to the whole speech: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1902738,00.html#ixzz0wr22SFSF

I don't know if Obama is better as a President, the war is still going on and I can't see any stop to it yet, and I have no idea what he has actually done since he came in power (care to enlighten me?), but at least he is a better speaker than Bush, just the fact he is not messing up the speeches is a good deal better than what Bush ever managed to do.
But we will see how this ends up when his 4 year period is over.
But I don't think the problem is in Iraq, the problem is all over the world, it's not the Muslims who need to be stopped, but the extremists, of all kinds, not just terrorists, but nazis, rasists, communists...

Obama is speaking about stereotypes, and he wants the Muslims not to see America as a stereotype, as he wants the Americans not to see the Muslims as stereotype, but the stereotype he is mentioning (" America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empre") it's unfortunate so say, that the Americans looks like the that to so many more places than just the Muslim world, and I think the quote "When America sneezes, the world gets teh cold" is a good way to finish this post.

(The picture is taken from http://www.getreligion.org/wp-content/photos/barack_obama2.jpg)