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perkyrusalka ([personal profile] perkyrusalka) wrote2005-09-18 11:31 pm
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I'm getting very tired of b.s.ing my opinion about whether or not we should withdraw from Iraq. I don't have an opinion about it. You know why? Because it doesn't matter what I think. Seriously. All the rantings of a 24 year-old amount to nada. Especially since my opinion is-"well, we're in there now, aren't we? Better do what we said we were going to do in the first place, and the get on out." I'm thinking that's not a very popular opinion. In fact, I know it isn't, but it never is. If you're in a place where you have to say "You agreed to do this, and promised to do that. Now you have to actually do that and this," you aren't going to be the popular one. If you're going to be an idiot, you should at least be an idiot with confidence. This is why one should think things out before one gets committed to doing something.

And it's really hard to express that idea formally, and make it take up a page. Especially since I have a feeling I'm not rolling with the idea of the assignment. And quite frankly, it's one of those things where I could write a paragraph, but if I get past that, I'm going to have to write a friggin' novella.

Never mind that my opinion, is based more or less on ignorance. That's okay, it works for the president. (Cheap shot, I know.) I suppose it comes of a purely academic past-I need to know, at minimum, the complete history of American interactions with Iraq (preferably presented with footnotes) before I can even start to form an idea.

At least I'm fairly secure about my grammar. The passive voice is something which I overuse, but I'm trying to restrain myself.

Edited to prove I know how old I am. Oops.

[identity profile] turtledawn.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
if it makes you feel better, i feel the same way about the iraq crap- at least the "well we're there now, we'd better fix it" thing. I have no interest in knowing the complete history if US-Iraq relations, though. I t really just seems like such an exhausting undertaking.. i wonder if that's why so many people in the US settle for ignorance? They would prefer to have thorough knowledge of something, but don't know where to find the info or just can't bring themselves to something so very involved.

I'm sorry you got stuck in the patterson school while they have an actual current event to obsess over. It must be tiresome going over the same crap all the time.
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[identity profile] perkyrusalka.livejournal.com 2005-09-19 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It is easy to settle for ignorance. Once you start looking at Iraq, you have to look at Iran, and Saudi Arabia, and everywhere else, and you have to go back at least 20 years all around-and good luck finding a source that even tries not to be biased. /rant

I did have another choice for this paper-but as I know less than zilch about the genocide in Sudan, Iraq was easier.