Yeah, so I guess Jihad has been/is going to be declared against the US.  For all I know, Jihad was a very bad card game, kind of like Magic: The Gath­er­ing that existed when I was in high school, then was quickly renamed to be more polit­i­cally cor­rect.  So now what?  World War III?  Speak­ing of high school and world war, that reminds me of some of the bul­letin board soft­ware we used way back then…dial up someone’s com­puter on a modem (this was before you could con­nect to the inter­net), post mes­sages, read mes­sages, post files, grab files.  The soft­ware was called WWIV.  I don’t think it ever really stood for any­thing, just ran­dom letters. 

So, I was com­fort­able a few min­utes ago.  I am sit­ting in bed with a fan blow­ing a cool breeze in from out­side and a lap­top con­nected to the net­work using the inter­nal wire­less card.  “Look Ma!  No wires!”  This is what wire­less tech­nol­ogy was MADE for!  But now I am not so com­fort­able.  Will I have to worry about air­borne bio­log­i­cal reagents?  Will I have to dodge lit­tle men with bombs strapped to their chests when I go to my inter­view tomor­row morn­ing?  Will I have to have sec­ond thoughts about the crowd when I go to get Indian food at a hole-in-the-wall mom-and-pop just up the free­way?  (Not that I would worry about them being ter­ror­ists, but about them think­ing I’m some stu­pid Amer­i­can that doesn’t know any better…a sort of reverse prejudice.)

If a country/religious group declares Jihad upon our coun­try, we will have some­body of sub­stance to fight–not sim­ply the neb­u­lous term “ter­ror­ists.”  (How do you fight a con­cept, any­way?) Will this mean we go to war?  Will this change our qual­ity of life?  Some­body told me the other day that I am too old for the draft (27 in another month), but will the rules about the draft change (espe­cially con­sid­er­ing I have nei­ther school nor work)?  Will my friends dis­ap­pear over­seas?  Maybe this is point­less, con­sid­er­ing that I also heard that they have more than enough peo­ple join­ing the mil­i­tary of their own free will…or free brain­wash­ing.  “Be all that you can be.”

While the movies are cool, I am not sure I am quite ready to live in the world of 12 Mon­keys or Mad Max.

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