Taking the highway along the lake of Zürich in direction of Chur destination Pfäffikon, Schwyz. This is really the most beautiful time of the year when it is green in the valleys but the mountains are still white.
War, war, war, it is so far away but with the media coverage still so close. During the week a video from 2007 was released showing American soldiers firing at unarmed Iraqi civilians from a helicopter as if they were part of a video game. It is so awful to watch and so easy to judge these soldiers from our sofas, but what do we know? What kind of person was the guy sitting in the helicopter urging for permission to shoot? Was he evil and thirsty of blood or was he scared and stressed believing that he did the right thing? Would he have acted the same way when he just arrived in Iraq or has he been destroyed by spending time in such an environment? There is a song I really like by Rise Against called Hero of War that paints an interesting picture of the soldiers going to war. In the song a guy goes away as a patriot believing that he will be a hero but when he meets the reality of war he does things he never thought he was capable of and the glory he strive for never comes.
In wars there are rules, or are there? Obama just tried to add a few rules to war saying that the US is allowed to use nuclear weapons on a country that possess the same arms. The rule makes total sense and one can only hope that will encourage nations not to develop more weapons of mass destruction but honetstly, who really believes in this promise? War swipes away all sense of morality and no country follows any rules once they're confronted with a hostile situation. Torture was also prohibited, wasn't it?
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