In a meeting today I found out one of our developers is trapped in Lebanon. He had gone to visit his family and now can't get out. He's an American citizen though, and has registered at the embassy, but I guess there's a wait list to be evacuated. In the meantime he has access to email.

A co-worker's wife and kids were on the cruiseship that evacuated US citizens from Lebanon to Cyprus.

Sheesh. He must really have wanted to get out of work.


Seriously, I hope he gets out soon.

Fighting for peace is like fvcking for virginity

Couldn't disagree more. Peace is achieved when warring groups have a definitive winner and the winner sets the terms of the peace.

If warring groups didn't war, and instead just decided to get along there would be no need for war or fighting.

This makes the assumption that you can control actions beyond your own. You cannot. Should groups wish to war with me and will not get along with me, no matter how I try to get along with them, it matters not. To have peace, then, I must go to war to stop them from warring with me against my wishes.

If they refuse to live at peace with me, I must then go to war to achieve peace. Therefore, peace through war is often necessary.

Two of our major allies, being Japan and Germany, 60 years ago were our biggest enemies. We now have incredible peace with them because we conquered them when they did not wish to live at peace with us.

But if they had wished to live in peace with us we woudln't have had to conquer them to begin with.