Every time I hear Americans speak about political correctness and how you have to be a paid killer to really understand the pressures paid killers are under, I think of this video, and I understand that at least some of your fellow countrymen appreciate the irony of ideology foisted upon others with bullets and bombs.
You are not the world Americans, you are not the ideology most of us follow, your values are not my values; I do no share your violence and ignorance, I do not salute your flag or any flag for that matter. You want your little adventures in the sand, fine, but don't expect me to be polite about killers, rogues and thieves just because they speak a similar language or stitch a flag to their arm. I no more support the paid killers from my own country than I do yours. I do not condone, nor will I ever, the murderous glee of the modern video-game soldier as he sits 1.5km distant from peaceful men and good samaritans then fires upon them death. You want to say I don't understand, you want to imply that somehow because I refuse the rifle and the violence attached I somehow don't have an opinion. I somehow don't matter because I haven't 'served'. Well here's news for you; I won't ever serve. I won't ever pick up the gun and point it at another human being. I won't ever follow blindly the orders of psychopaths and killers.
As my grandfather once said -
It's easy to pick up a rifle, but it takes real courage to ignore one.
And as my Kurdish friend said:
The blood that seeps into the sand now fertilises the wrong kind of seeds.
These are the two Reuters employees who were murdered in the cowardly attack - (L) Saeed Chmagh (Driver, 40) Namir Noor-Eldeen (Photographer, 22). Both had families, both had lives that were wasted on the day that death was visited upon them from over 1km away by giggling psychopaths and the paid killers of an illegal occupation. Namir was an amazing photographer, a collection of some of his work can be found here:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/0...r-noor-eldeen/
So don't talk to me about political correctness and how the 'lounge' should be how you want it to be.
And now here's what I want. Will somebody please delete my effing account so I don't have to be associated with these people and this place any longer.