Ginmar's Iraq LitBlog
LitBlogs:"'Ginmar', a soldier serving in Iraq, is profane, witty, and profound by turns, sometimes all at once. She's an unrepentant, uncompromising, unapologetic feminist, and proud of it. She rants, raves, sputters, snarls, snipes, and shivs many of her posts; she does not suffer fools gladly. Or at all. Instead, she makes them suffer, and is it ever fun to watch her do it. "
One example:
After a very funny takedown, she shifts gears.
Websense is...like some kind of Puritan standing guard at the whorehouse door, charging admission and clucking disapprovingly, except here they don't ever let you in, and you've already paid the price because you're in Iraq already.
Once again, I'm reminded of the unique status of the citizen soldier: we represent our country, and defend it, and it's moments like this that make me wonder what exactly we're getting in return. We have to have our websites screened because we're so easily influenced we might be led in some way that others might disapprove of---yet they trust us to shape a nation.
Half the soldiers here are Reservists, which means they're used to non-military environments and other perspectives. We represent America more realistically than our very own Congress does: there are more women in the military---hell, in the Marines----than there are Congress----and yet we must be clucked and nannied as if we were children.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. - You cannot trust us in part when you ask us for everything in return. We are not just a means to an end here, but an end in and of ourselves. At the most intimate basic level, all this handholding means that somewhere, somehow....we are not trusted by the very people who ask us to lay down our lives for their principles.
I have to wonder what else is going to happen.
Dammit, I hate it when I start bitching and turn serious.
I'm going to bed..... (Continued)
posted by Mike Mx @ 1:27 AM
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