When looking back one is always right Nothing is easier than looking back on things and analyzing them. Such is also the case with the war in Iraq. People that were against the war (like me) are afraid that many innocent people will get hurt. But now it seems it’s a walk-over for the US. I wonder how much longer the war will last.
“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action – J. Von Goethe (1749-1832)”
“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action – J. Von Goethe (1749-1832)” With the war going into another day, this is a truly interesting quote that popped into my mind. The Iraqi’s seem to be able to hold back the US and British army more than we expected and this will make it more and more difficult to tell when this war will be over. Just a dream? In the night the war started I woke up in the morning from a dream I had. Well, actually it was more of a fragment of a dream. The fact […]
11 hours, 11 minutes to go
According to my countdown clock we are now 11hrs, 11 minutes away from another Gulf war. At least, that is what we think: given the circumstances the US and Brittain (I keep forgetting them all the time) might attack earlier. This morning I spoke to a friend of mine who is an officer in the Dutch army. He said that it is no accident the US did choose this date to attack. According to him it is an advantage that it is full moon right now. Even though the US troops are technologically very advanced, they can use the extra […]
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” — Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
With a new Gulf war on its way in the next 24 hours, I can only think up this quote from this famous British philosopher who also was a know pascifist. Who are we to decide for another person – let alone another country – what is right and what is wrong? Now, we all know Saddan Hoessein is an evil dictator who exploits his own people. However, starting a war is not the solution to the problem, since it will hurt innocent people that have part in anything going on. That the war was coming was obvious: and I […]
Tripod’s messing up!
Tripod’s messing up! For those that know my webpage a bit longer and have visted my webplace more often, know that I had my share of problems with Tripod. Ok, its free and you get 20meg of diskspace (10 more than with my own ISP – UPC) and 1 gig of traffic for free a month, but they do mess up a lot. Very annoying! Well, they did it again! they deleted my vandegoor.tripod.com account! I have no idea why except when I tried to access it I got this message that the user was deleted becasuse of some violation! […]