I was doing my normal morning routine which consists of Trader Joe’s Ginger Snaps, coffee, and news. Honestly, I didn’t feel like reading CNN… and I wasn’t in the mood for the BBC, so I typed in Syria news. The Google Gods came up with a plethora of links… and without actually looking at any of them, I clicked the third one down. It ended up being an article from The Onion. I read the article and thought, “Shit. This is a great idea. I wish we could do something like this.” The Onion’s article goes on about how in recent polls, Americans (along with many other world citizens) opt for sending Congress and House Reps to Syria. Why not? If they are willing to send other people there, why can’t they go check things out for themselves? Excuse my ignorance, but can’t they just do a nice little helicopter tour? Furthermore, why can’t The Onion articles be true?!

On a continuing note… I am very interested in learning Tibetan right now… and that interest has lead me to doing a lot of Bob Thurman reading. If you haven’t read anything by Bob, you really should. That man should be president (REALLY). We, in America, are warmongers. We are raised to be warmongers- it is what is in our media, our video games, our films, our history, our bloodlines, oh and the list goes on. I always end up sounding like an idealist hippie, but for once… can we please try a nonviolence approach?! If history has taught us anything, it is that war does not work. In fact, it simply perpetuates this sick, death-inducing, ego tripping cycle. And for those who are not aware of the nonviolence approach– it has absolutely nothing to do with being a pacifist. The nonviolence approach is about opposition in an educated, morally sound, CIVILIZED manner. This is why we admire Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi, etc. I’m starting to sound like a broken record saying things that are being said on a daily basis, but one other question/statement: If we (I say “we” because it is “we” so this attack will have an effect on every single American) are moving forward with this Syria business, why not go into all the other countries that are struggling with tyrants? Why not help out Aung San Suu Kyi a bit in Burma? Or why not find a time machine that the CIA is hiding in a basement and fix the problems in Tibet?

Check out The Onion article here:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/poll-majority-of-americans-approve-of-sending-cong,33752/?ref=auto