I can't make up my mind about our generation. I'm begining to think that there are two parts to it.

One group is apathetic. No matter what happens, they don't get pissed off. They get annoyed at people trying to have sane, calm, and constructive conversations and debates to fix things. They just don't care, even when problems multiply in their face. They must hide under the modern rock - be it computers and videogames or something - and pretend that things will all be ok eventually. They're the first to deny any problems, and the last to act. They're always anxious to brush events under the rug and move on with day to day life.

The other group cares, a lot, but is impotent. The problem is they see too many problems, and they're so big its just overwhelming. They have ideas to tacakle the problems, but things just seem to grow worse and the tiny dents they make are so little. They're frustrated at their seeming lack of power to effect anything around them, but are unable to just turn away and hide in their personal lives.

Either way, we wind up with a generation that doesn't have a cause despite so many laying around to take up.

We are not going to see any more US troops come home in body bags at Dover for the sake of some Cheney affiliate grabbing the petroleum in Iran's Ahvaz fields.

We are not going to have another 15,000 wounded vets flood onto our streets with spine damange and brain damage.

We are not going to put Yazd behind barbed wire to liberate it, as a millenarian Christian general did to Habbaniyah in Iraq.

We are not going to imprison and torture thousands of Iranians at Evin Penitentiary in Tehran, as worthy successors to the bloodthirsty Shah and Khomeini.

We are not going to kill 200,000 Iranians with aerial bombardments of Tabriz, Isfahan, Qom, Kerman, Shiraz and Mashahd.

We are not going to let dozens of US corporations loot the American people and the Iranian people alike with no-bid "contracts", embezzlement, corruption, and graft.

We are not going to let you have a war against Iran.

So sit down and shut up, American Enterprise Institute, and Hudson Institute, and Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and American Heritage Institute, and this institute and that institute, and cable "news", and government "spokesmen", and all the pundit-ferrets you pay millions to make business for the American military-industrial complex and Big Oil.

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I saw a comment on one of the many blogs I read daily yesterday that really struck me - the gist of it was that this is not the country it used to be, where has my country gone? And it's about time we stood up and started fighting to take it back.

I think when I get home I shall begin small by posting a couple signs.