Nightmares
Quite right. Nanny Rice wants to protect the nation from the latest report on the incidence of terror. An increase of five or six times the number that were recorded before the war on terror really got started can't be accurate anyway. Somebody must have just gotten a whole lot better at keeping track of things.
On the other hand, terror being the feeling that lingers as we wake from a nightmare, it's unlikely that reports coming out of Washington will ever have all the numbers. How can we possibly make a record of the nightmares of all of the spouses and children, whose loved ones have been killed and maimed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Lebanon. Not to mention all of those other places where war is being waged in the name of peace?
Might as well not bother. War generates nightmares. That's a given. So, if we want to escape the terror, it's war that's got to be stopped. 'Cause a war on nightmares is sort of redundant. Don't you think?
Posted by Hannah at April 17, 2005 08:53 AM