Posted by
JP on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:24:36 AM
by Julia
Gorin [pundit/comedian]
"What’s your connection to…this…Serbian thing?”
I get that a lot. I usually answer: “Just being an American hyper-patriot.”
That
was, after all, my original motivation for protesting a war for the
first time in my life at the age of 25. When my country bombed a
European nation on behalf of Muslims making the usual claim of
oppression, my concerns were two-fold: America’s security, and
America’s soul.
It’s
hard to describe the dizzying disorientation I felt on March 24, 1999,
the day I learned that the United States was going through with bombing
an ally from two world wars. It was more surreal than September 11,
2001, for on the latter date I wasn’t alone in my disorientation. But
the fog that engulfed me for several weeks starting March 24th, 1999 as
I observed people complacently sipping cappuccinos in outdoor cafes as
if nothing was happening was overwhelming; I knew America had turned a
dark corner and would pay a price. [more]