According to editors of this site, the above issue 'can wait'. The reason cited? We are are in wartime. Gee, can't we do more than one thing at a time? Let's hold off everything!! No no, let's get to increasing cancer research funding later, it can wait, we are in wartime. Let's put off fixing main-street - we are in wartime, it can wait. Hell, let's throw every resource we have into this 'war on terror' - because it's the only thing worth worrying about right now. Everything else can wait.

How long do we wait for? How long will we wait for the war to be over? How long until our friends in Fallugia are 'free'? We just wait. They'll just wait.

I think there is an argument for the view that trying to solve things quickly, with a shite-load of 'collateral damage' as is being done in Iraq, is, perhaps not the best way for ensuring freedom. This 'imposed revolution' might seem in retrospect to be the way we have made terrorists more dangerous - because they hate the west more. Perhaps better is what is happening in China - it's not a revolution of freedom - but an evolution of western values. The youth there and the freedom-lovers no longer stand before tanks, rising up against powers they are too weak to withstand. Instead western values just 'slowly' seep into the nation. In this sense, waiting is worthy. It's worthy because the light at the end of the tunnel might be a little further off, but at least we don't have to crawl over quite so many bodies and shattered lives as we do right now in Iraq, claiming the light is just around the corner.

Personally, I reckon the length the tunnel in Iraq is a hell of a lot longer than the one in China. Moreover it's going to be clogged with a lot more blood.

Whatever the case, we're going to be waiting along time. And with all that time let's do somethign productive rather than destructive...like, I don't know...give rights to people in democratic nations who are at the moment being discriminated against, like singles and gays.