Pacifists,
and why I hate them
Well my fellow Cal State Long Beach students,
winter break is over, but the “War On Terrorism”
is still raging strong. As I read the newspaper
and walk around campus, however, I see many
a misguided soul. I remember an article
in this newspaper last semester accompanied
by a photograph showing some hippies on
the grass holding signs and saying that
President Bush is a warmonger and that this
war is ridiculous. Please, you smelly hippies,
go back to making magic beads.
Why is this war unnecessary? Is it a stupid
notion to protect ourselves? If I recall,
about a year and four months ago two planes
were flown into two of our most important
buildings, killing thousands of people and
injuring countless others. Since then, we
have had hundreds of threats ranging from
bombing landmarks to gassing us with chemical
agents. What is wrong with all of you pacifist
buffoons? Why should we not protect ourselves?
If someone came up and punched you in the
face (which is essentially what happened
to the United States on Sept 11) are you
just going to stand by and do nothing? I
think not.
Sure, Bush isn’t the most articulate of
men (cue collective snicker), but it is
my firm belief that we, as Americans, should
stand behind him and stick up for our country
regardless of how much we don’t care for
the man. Now I know what all of you brilliant
anti-war people are thinking right now:
“What about all the atrocities the United
States has committed against other people?”
I’ve got two words for you: who cares? What
does that have to do with the issue at hand?
The United States has less blood on its
hands than most countries.
Allow me to go through a small list of what
the United States has done to help other
countries: we fought in the Gulf War to
liberate Kuwait, preventing a staggering
increase in oil prices that could have followed;
we successfully ended the Hitler-tactics
Slobodan Milosevic was using to kill his
people, we provide a safe refuge for people
looking to escape their overbearing countries;
we ousted the extremely oppressive Taliban
from power in Afghanistan, liberating hundreds
of Afghanis; the list can go on and on.
I don’t understand why students feel the
need to protest so many things. Look to
your left, there are students protesting
some ridiculous cause; you look to your
right, there are students protesting against
the students who are protesting! Let’s face
it, this war is not the same as Vietnam.
We are trying to prevent more innocent American
lives from being taken by a man whose name
spelled backwards sounds out “mad ass.”
Think about that the next time you raise
that silly anti-war poster.
Gerry Wachovsky is a journalism major
at Cal State Long Beach.
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