fiction
edward w pritchard
Rich and powerful and in power politicians sit in a secret situation room somewhere in Washington and using the best technology available survey the planet. Our big brother is watching the world.
Were they watching the other day when a missile was fired in error at a passenger jet by a bunch of weekend anarchists playing soldiers? If we had the technology, say a secret super powerful laser in space, should our big brother have stopped the jet from being bought down? What of the repercussions? Should our big brother play God in another countries business?
Why have a situation room at all. We all know that when you build a secret special room the desire is multiplied to use the room to interfere and spy on others. That's how once isolationist America got to be big brother to the world.
If we were going to have a situation room; why not use it to stop killing children in war zones? The idea behind a situation room is if we get information early we can intervene.
Situation room. It's fun to pretend that someone is in control but actually evil and chaos do exist and if destructive technology and bad intentions are in the air terrible things will happen.
Here's what I wrote in situation room /part 1 it's about the day Bin Laden was shot and some musing on the day chief Big Foot was carried out of his hospital bed, an old man with pneumonia and shot; later it was claimed Big foot was shot during battle at Wounded Knee in 1890 in South Dakota.
As author has said before, War is absurd.
Stop the killing of children as a first step to a rational world.
situation room
fiction
edward w pritchard
A man is dead and in the situation room people far away watch anxiously. So powerful and wealthy from their own efforts that they no longer have to watch out for their own financial interests in these things: now it's all about power and position, and posterity and public opinion.
A man is dead. Some think about their own failings and fears. Their duty versus the need for justice. Maybe doubts. Did they get the whole story from others still having vested interests.
Geronimo is a interesting choice of code name for Osama bin Laden. An American Indian. When Geronimo surrendered a few had an interesting take on that situation. What if instead of Geronimo it was operation Big foot, the Sioux chief laying there perpetually dead and frozen in the snow. -Insert picture here- chief big foot frozen Sioux warrior. Bigfoot died in a firefight with the US military in 1890.
How might our enemies feel about us? A man is dead do we forgive our enemies?
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