Saturday, July 19, 2008

Old men start wars...


Jaane kiya Soch ke Rota Raha Qatil Tanha...

"Old men start wars. Young men fight them. And everyone in the middle gets killed. War is natural. Peace is an accident. We're animals." - A dialogue from Sylvester Stallone’s last movie Rambo (2008). Sylvester Stallone edited this dialogue out and you don’t see him say those lines anymore.

Artists are the conscience of any society and no artist should be afraid to tell the truth, otherwise he or she is not an artist but a glorified baniya!

Above an American GI holding a dead baby in Iraq after the bombing that killed her. It is apparent that the baby is dead but a little sensitivity can conclude that a part of this GI is also killed along with her.

No amount of training can prepare you for this and you just can't walk away from this experience "alive". This guy or gal will be in the US whenever his/her time is done and would re-join the civilian life. Everything will go back to normal like parties, shopping, graduation and ball games - only he or she would know that he or she is a "dead man walking!"

War will come to an end sometime. Deads will be counted, memorials on both sides of Atlantic will be built and re-construction will begin. But war will never end for this GI as long as he/she is alive!

This is how it is in the death lane...

5 comments:

Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

Babes,
Please don't remove.I wanted you to see your last few posts and recognize that you are hurting yourself.

When you are with us you are so much fun to be around. Its only when you get to damn Norcross that you turn into a Pessimist. Why? Think about it.

Ye manzilen !! said...

J: I think u do have a good point. I dunno why.....not returning to Norcross is one option!

Ye manzilen !! said...

J: I like my name...so..

Anirudh 'Lallan' Choudhry said...

:(