Leaving

[bill_schubert]

While I'm not a fan of collective punishment I just finished listening to a WAPO interview with the Prime Minister of Lithuania.  The interviewer specifically asked her how she felt about punishing the Russian people with boycotts and banking blocks for what Putin is doing.  Her response was far more elegant and gentle but was in essence:  

By what Putin could see the world didn't care if he increased Russia's land mass. He acquires sycophants and so gets no push back internally.  The west is indifferent to his take over of the Russian government.  Lithuania has for a long time said that the west should be boycotting his regime.  Had the west followed this recommendation and given Putin a strong signal that aggression would be met with destruction we might not be where we are today.  

My sister is moving off LJ to DreamWidth and the primary reason I'm on LJ is to have another stream of communication with her.  I will follow her.  I've tried to import my archive to DW and once I've figured out that has worked (or not) I'll delete this journal entirely so that it will at least have some impact with the owners of LJ.  Grain of sand but there it is.

My DW name is, cleverly, bill-schubert.  No end to my creativity.  

During the Desert Storm times I used to read a blog by an unknown women called 'Baghdad Burning'.  I read it in real time and it was sad and inspiring and riveting and I still think of it during such times as these.  Her title line was appended with:

... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend...

Her last entry 10 years later in 2003 ended with 'Lo khuliyet, quilibet" which means "If the world were empty of good people, it would end".  She still thinks it is safe.  

That always spoke to my romantic soul.  

Comments

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

To help people find you: you've got a dash here (bill-schubert) but at DW it looks like your journal name is with an underscore (bill_schubert). (I know you know what those things are but some people may be less familiar with the nomenclature.)

[amw.livejournal.com]

I think in LJ land dash and underscore are the same. I remember years ago when they folded dash and underscore usernames together, it was a bit of a controversy because some people really liked their underscore. I think it happened when they introduced subdomains for everyone, because underscore isn't a valid character in a domain name.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, it's always nice when problems solve themselves:).