Todd-'o'-Vision
Super xVirgin Man
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In todays society of instant gratification war isn't really understood.
We live in a society were we can have fast food, microwave dinners, instant coffees etc. The ways in which we are accustomed to living if we can't have what we want in under five minutes we get very impatient.
Waiting in a traffic jam, in the express lane checkout with more than two people, flicking the remote during the commercials, bigger and better modems, faster processors. We are not trained or capable of waiting for something to occur, we want what we want and we want it now, right this instant if not yesterday.
War really does not fit into this mindset, most people of instant gratification cannot understand the need of a war that will take 6 months a year to complete, we got big bombs, big guns, big forces, but war is something that simply takes what most of us in this day and age can not or will not comprehend . . . time.
Instant gratificationers have already declared this war a loss because the allies have not complete control and Saddam is still alive{?} and in control. Instant gratification wants victory and wants it now, yet also wants no undue deaths. In most aspects of life fast and safe are not something that goes together and such is war war takes time, to prevent as few losses as possible to combatants and civilians.
considering what has been throw at iraq weapon wise and loss of life it is a hell of a lot better than if this war had been fought instant gratification style.
Why not cook dinner in the crockpot tonight, sure a few precious hours will be sacrificed, but if you have prepared it right, I am sure you will find it tastes a hell of a lot better than that cambells microwave in the can dinner you were planning
We live in a society were we can have fast food, microwave dinners, instant coffees etc. The ways in which we are accustomed to living if we can't have what we want in under five minutes we get very impatient.
Waiting in a traffic jam, in the express lane checkout with more than two people, flicking the remote during the commercials, bigger and better modems, faster processors. We are not trained or capable of waiting for something to occur, we want what we want and we want it now, right this instant if not yesterday.
War really does not fit into this mindset, most people of instant gratification cannot understand the need of a war that will take 6 months a year to complete, we got big bombs, big guns, big forces, but war is something that simply takes what most of us in this day and age can not or will not comprehend . . . time.
Instant gratificationers have already declared this war a loss because the allies have not complete control and Saddam is still alive{?} and in control. Instant gratification wants victory and wants it now, yet also wants no undue deaths. In most aspects of life fast and safe are not something that goes together and such is war war takes time, to prevent as few losses as possible to combatants and civilians.
considering what has been throw at iraq weapon wise and loss of life it is a hell of a lot better than if this war had been fought instant gratification style.
Why not cook dinner in the crockpot tonight, sure a few precious hours will be sacrificed, but if you have prepared it right, I am sure you will find it tastes a hell of a lot better than that cambells microwave in the can dinner you were planning
