Oh, Sweet

12 Nepalese hostages were killed by Iraqi militants today. I should blame the militants for killing them, but somehow I feel like this would have never happened if the Bush administration had never decided to groundlessly invade Iraq.

You don't really get much more innocent than Nepalese civilians. Nobody cares about Nepal. Did you know there have been Maoist rebellions there for decades? I had no idea that anything happened in Nepal since 2001, when one of the princes went batshit and killed a number of family members.

It's just exceptionally sad that innocents from all over the world are being murdered because of some arcane reasoning. It's like a multi-lateral payment for one country's mistake. It's like the whole class being punished for one kid putting a tack on the teacher's chair. It wasn't fair when you were young, and it's not fair now.

Pah, I say.

Listening to: "Pharaoh's Daughter" by the Secret Machines