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Sofie 'Melle' Werkers ([personal profile] bubosquared) wrote2001-09-13 01:26 am
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Bed time. Had hot chocolate. Still more scared now than I was yesterday.

Mr Bush, sir? Don't do anything rash? Please?

Good night, everyone. I love you all.

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[identity profile] girlinthecorner.livejournal.com 2001-09-12 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly, I think he's going to do something. All this talk of hunting down the people and the place that's harboring them and punishing them. I don't want to have him hurt innocent people... that'll be just as bad as what the terrorists did to us.

[identity profile] sacissej.livejournal.com 2001-09-12 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree. I hope that no one does anything out of revenge. Love to everyone, jx

[identity profile] ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com 2001-09-12 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
One opinion here: I was born into the Cold War and remember it quite distinctly (I'm 31), and the huge changes in foreign policy--and the confusion, and the missteps--that happened when it ended. I think we are in fact headed for another war, not a "hot" war of drafts and troop movements but a second cold war of increased espionage, the old containment doctrines dusted off and pressed back into service, 95% of what happens happening behind closed doors before we actually know it's being implemented as policy. And it will be a "war" lasting not weeks or months, but just like Cold War I, decades.

I'd really prefer to be wrong about that. But on the off chance I'm not: Fasten your seatbelts, all you kids who have no memory of that mentality, 'cause it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

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[identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com 2001-09-13 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
God. I don't really remember the cold war; I was 11 when it ended, and we felt so much less from it here in Europe anyway. But shit. Just, no.

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[identity profile] ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com 2001-09-13 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
That's really what I'm expecting to evolve out of this, slowly but surely. I remember it very distinctly, growing up in Reagan's America at the height of the nuttiness...it's a, well, weird landscape, I'll say that much for it.

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[identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com 2001-09-13 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm just going to selfishly hope we'll not be too affected by it over here. The last thing I need is to find myself in a country paranoid towards about 10% (my guess, prolly not too far off) of its population and oh, god, as if the fascists didn't already have 20% of the votes. And I live in a muslim neighbourhood in a city where they have over 25%. Shit, shit, shit!

Okay, overreacting again. things'll prolly be much worse for you lot, so if anyone needs a place to live, I have a semi-big flat.
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