Tony Blair, the new Churchill?

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by dhamsaic
I think what he meant was "I hope I never have to see one." As in, it doesn't happen while he's alive. That's how I read it.

Good read, as that is what I meant.

I remember being a 15-year old in January 1991. We had just went through an earthquake scare in St. Louis that December. I'm eating dinner shortly before 6pm Central Time in the middle of January, when Dan Rather announces that Baghdad is being bombed. I had a sense of pride--I was all gung ho about us going in and beating up on the Iraqis. Granted, I'm much better educated now...

But I also remember the fear I had of nuclear war as a child, and the fear of the end-of-the-world as a teenager. I've never lived through a war...and a history book only tells you so much.

I'm really a pacifist at heart. And while all of you and I and 280 million Americans try to go back to normal, I won't deny that I am scared. I don't want to see our country get locked into a lengthy war. I don't want to see our soldiers and innocent civilians die. I don't want people to drop dead in the streets b/c of something they can't see or smell.

Now it's not like I live my whole life in fear over any of this. But it does give me worry...