9.15.01 – later

the buzzline on the news has changed from “Day of Terror” (tuesday) to “American Under Attack” (wed-fri) to “America’s New War” (tonight).

i heard on BBC that a recent poll showed that 78% percent of americans are in favor of going to war even if it means the loss of innocent life in afghanistan. 69% are in favor of going to war even if it means a significant loss of american life. does anyone else out there find this as horrifying as i do? how will killing innocent people make us feel better about all those innocent people who were killed on tuesday? afghanistan is willing to hand us bin Laden if we can provide evidence that he’s really behind tuesday’s attacks, but somehow it makes more sense for us to go bomb the shit out of a bunch of innocent afghans, who have nothing to do with their government’s decision to hide bin Laden. apparently afghan people are packing up and fleeing, but iran and pakistan have closed their borders to afghan refugees.