Thursday Morning Thoughts

[elainegrey]

I'm happy i seem to be feeling better this morning.

I'm not happy with the federal government's negotiations for bases in Colombia: i'd really hate to see US forces caught up in some of the deceit used by the Colombian military and intelligence forces. My sympathies lie with civilian populations who refuse to support the paramilitary (which have strong ties to the military) and the rebels, who get caught between.

I ponder the two hours i've spent awake, checking and responding to a few personal emails, reading LJ. I chatted briefly with my parents about my flight arrival late Friday, and my Mom burbled her plans for my visit. There's some emotional resonance there to pick at.

Birthdays and my grandparents loom in my mind: i don't keep track, keep in contact as i wish i did. How to balance the community i live in with the ones i wish to keep connected? (But i'm not, really....)

Comments

[laughingrat]

Ugh, the civilians are always the ones to get it the worst. So what does Colombia do? Drag in a bunch of armed foreigners with a known nationalist/racist streak, plop them down in the middle of things, tell them who the "bad guys" are, then turn 'em loose.

Yeah, the civilians are really going to take the brunt of this one. Anyway, this sort of thing reminds me of what's happening in Iran, you know with the government getting troops from neighboring countries to police the streets because there's no common language between them and the protesters, or of the Tienanmen Square protests.