I dislike permanent records of emotions.

Some things never change, I'm sure. Some of my points of view I'll keep with me 
until the day I die. But for the most part, I'm a very mutable person. I dislike 
having evidence in the past to say that I supported a heavily emotional position, 
because more often than not a week or a month later I'll not remember why I 
thought [whatever] was worth fighting for.

That's why I killed my LJ.

I don't feel like that any more, in the main. I'm not the person who wrote those 
remarks. I mean, that was months ago. Or weeks. Or something.

Oh, when jotting down little notes about day-to-day drones and drives, I'm sure 
it's wonderful. But I don't do that. I've never been good about keeping a journal, 
and having it online didn't help with that. I tried, really I did. And it didn't 
work. So there you have it.

Okay. Now for my evenhanded commentary on the events of the past while (this is 
10-7-01), in as unemotional a tone as I can get.

Our government has never been very good at respecting the rights of other 
countries, and other ways of life. We've had noble efforts, but we've never been 
very *good* at it. I think that our government is working with the best interests 
of somebody in mind. I think that they're trying their best, as they have in the 
past, to fight for the noble causes they proclaim while keeping an eye on money 
and self-interest. I don't expect otherwise. And I think that they will, in all 
honesty, try to do the best for the Afghani people.

But I don't think they're very good at it.