would you like hypocrisy with your tea?

i am not sure where the united states and japan get off talking. i mean, the united states is an easy one. this is still the only nation that has ever used a nuclear weapon against another nation -- ironically, japan -- and has been using nuclear technology in the war in iraq as well as has a history for using chemical weapons.

and japan, though they don't make nuclear weapons or nuclear technologies, without the machinery that comes from japan, the making of nuclear weapons would not even be possible. and i am not even going into china and japan.

so really, does it make a lot of sense that these two nations should be the nations to harass north korea? i am not even sure that north korea needs to be harassed for trying to obtain nuclear weapons. after all, i am only going to be pissed if they use them, and there doesn't really seem to be a viable way to bring an end to the nuclear age at this point.

it seems a lot like a group of nuclear nations getting together to tell another nation that it can't become nuclear. and well ... that doesn't sound a lot like my concept of freedom. which brings me to the real question: am i really that naive and stupid?

yes, i think it's true. my general disdain doesn't seem to encourage my moronic optimism. and that can't be a good thing.

but you know, i was looking at the paper, and there doesn't seem to be a lot that i find interesting right now. it feels like i am going through one of those periods where i just don't take current events very seriously. maybe that's because i am not taking life very seriously.

but seriously, there are still a lot of people dying. and i don't know that i really understand the united states stepping forth in the world community as if it is some moral leader ... as if has been outside the cave and can shed some light.

it's one of those things that has always gotten me. how can i be proud to be an american when i can't even sympathize with what my nation is doing in the world? i can't. i am just not proud to be an american. i wonder how much longer i can live here? of course, i don't see myself leaving anytime too soon.