I just had the most incredibly upsetting conversation with my repug (ex) friend that I have ever had. I tried to explain to her that, for me, war is not a political issue, that it is a moral issue. I was a Republican most of my life. I didn't like war then and I don't like it now. For me, war is a symbol of failure. It is what happens when you are unable to solve the issues with diplomacy.
War is what stupid people do. I value all of life, from the insects (which I catch and throw outside of my house) to human beings. All forms of live are dependent on all others.
There is no race that is more superior than another. Americans are not superior to Arabs or Africans. We are all equal in importance, and we are all part of the grand scheme. Every level of life is dependent on another.
In speaking with my x-friend I got this huge amount of bullshit about "you read all those foreign newspapers." I asked her if she had ever read any of them, she said she had not but that she knew they were wrong.
Of course, the fact that I read Al Jazerra a couple of times a week makes me a supporter of terrorists. She has never read Al Jazerra but she knows that it is evil, and since I read it a couple of times a week than I support the terrorists. I don't even know who the terrorists are. I suspect that many of them are merely the resistance, and many of them have entered this war in protest to the US's presence in Iraq. I protest the US's presence in Iraq. I hate war, I hate the "collateral damage," and the huge numbers of civilians, women and children who have been killed because of Bush's imperial adventure.
It is really with a great deal of sadness that I let this friendship go. I have known this woman for many years. For the most part she is a decent woman - or so I thought, but I never found out until tonight that she thinks that I support the "terrorists." Guess that kind of says it all.