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Apr. 10th, 2003 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamAm staying up all night, as I have filming on really, really early in the morning and is no way in hell I will actually manage to get up at that hour. So, I'm staying up. I shall be done at noon, to then snooze off. Got weekend off, then editing on Monday and Tuesday. Some kind of peace rally on Sunday - will go if I have the time. It's very important now that things are done right in Iraq. I wish I had trust that the US would be able to do it, but alas, like most Norwegians I'm not optimistic. We will see, I guess. Even before the war started, there was talk of the US winning the war - but losing the peace. Iraq is complicated, divided, poor, starving... And this year, the US administration 'forgot' to budget extra (promised) money to Afghanistan (the Congress had to remind them). Hmmm. We will see. I cannot agree with the decisions made to get to this point, but I do hope all will go well.
That said, I heard some pro-war people chatting about how now the troops were going home, war was won, all was over. Um, no. It's now it really starts. Was is easy. Peace is a bitch, especially in this region. And this will not solve the problem of the Middle-earth. Iraq was never the problem as such. Too isolated. Israel and Palestine is the real issue, and an issue in which the US is terribly biased. And Bush thinks he can get peace there? We will see, I suppose. I will believe it when I see it.
And such is the advantage of being rather pessimistic. Every now and then you'll pleasently surprised. Norwegians have a dark streak, a sort of 'gloom', but on the other hand, we're never really down. My dad used to tell this story about a fisherman in Northern Norway, who one day got caught in a storm. His boat sinks, and he crawls ashore, livelyhood lost and future looking grimmed. Looking down at his hands, he notices he still has his mittens on and remarks
'At least I kept the mittens.'
Bit of the spirit of Northern Norway, really. And mittens are important, or your hands will freeze. So there.
That said, I heard some pro-war people chatting about how now the troops were going home, war was won, all was over. Um, no. It's now it really starts. Was is easy. Peace is a bitch, especially in this region. And this will not solve the problem of the Middle-earth. Iraq was never the problem as such. Too isolated. Israel and Palestine is the real issue, and an issue in which the US is terribly biased. And Bush thinks he can get peace there? We will see, I suppose. I will believe it when I see it.
And such is the advantage of being rather pessimistic. Every now and then you'll pleasently surprised. Norwegians have a dark streak, a sort of 'gloom', but on the other hand, we're never really down. My dad used to tell this story about a fisherman in Northern Norway, who one day got caught in a storm. His boat sinks, and he crawls ashore, livelyhood lost and future looking grimmed. Looking down at his hands, he notices he still has his mittens on and remarks
'At least I kept the mittens.'
Bit of the spirit of Northern Norway, really. And mittens are important, or your hands will freeze. So there.
