Friday, March 21
Fantastic, we're at war with Iraq, with approval given by Mr Blair himself. Even the Queen has got in on the act already, giving her message to the troops barely before they've actually fired a shot... Good stuff. To be honest, I'm not a huge opponent of war, I think that Saddam needs to be removed, and that it has been shown that force is going to be the only way. Admittedly, if I get drafted or something stupid like that, my opinion would no doubt change, but for now I'm fairly safe in the knowledge that what's going on is going on over there, and not here i the UK.Saying that though, it does worry me slightly that I live in London, a prime target for any resistance attacks by terrorists or whomever. I spend a lot of time within a mile of the Houses of Parliament, which does make me ever-so-slightly uneasy. Also, I use the Tube every day, and the prospect of a gas attack is an ever-constant background threat. However, you've got to put these things to the back of your mind as you walk down the street and get on with your life.
This is the first major conflict of my generation, I was too young to fully appreciate Gulf War 1, and Kosovo / Bosnia was more of a containment process by NATO once it got involved, rather than an all-out war. Especially true, given the lack of British troops explicitly involved in both of those conflicts... It's going to be fairly interesting how my hypocritically anti-corporate, pro-peace generation react to this conflict, especially if it begins to drag on...
Just as an aside, people (students) who claim to be anti-corporate / anti-capitalist really piss me off. They tell you why these huge multi-national corporations are so bad for the world's economy or free choice or freedom of speech or whatever, whilst sitting in Starbucks or in McDonalds, before getting out their Sony or Nokia mobile phone which is connected to Orange or T-Mobile and talking to a friend about which Nike trainers they're going to buy. This is after going on the internet, using Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer with a Microsoft mouse, to a message board where they bitch about these corporations. Oh yes, and they wear Calvin Klein glasses to see the screen properly. I'm unashamedly pro-logo. Practically every piece of clothing that I own has a logo on it somewhere; I wear Armani glasses and quite happily do all of the above. I'm different because I don't try to outwardly appear as if I'm something different. Anyway, rant over...
Cheers people.
