Ten Years of Blogging

I saw an article today that mentioned that its been 10 years since the run up to the Iraq war. It reminded me of blog posts I wrote during that time and, when I went to look, realized that I've been maintaining a blog for ten years. Ten years ago today, I was writing about day to day minutiae. But some of the posts are interesting and insightful.

Ten years has shown that Bush and his puppet masters manipulated the evidence and lied through their teeth to conduct a war of opportunity. But they did so with the collusion of many people in the US who were led down the path without the due diligence that citizens should bear. Our responsibility does not end in the ballot box.

I continue to be horrified by the actions of the United States. The drones may have been effective at killing the al queda leaders, along with the women and children and village elders and first responders killed in accidental "bug splats" alongside them. Not pursuing terrorists with such vigor would undoubtedly result in some increased risk. But the risk of dying from terrorist attack is already infinitesimally small when compared with other causes of death. Killing people on the other side of the world with flying death robots does not make us safer.