Surreal

This war has been amazing to behold, and weird too. Last week I sat on my couch and marveled that we are watching the bombing campaign from inside the political center of our enemies. Stationary cameras set up broadcasting images and commentary from inside enemy positions? Then I heard a commentator on CNN talk about how this is the first "blogged" war, but wasn't exactly sure what he was trying to get at.

This morning I kept seeing this photo everywhere, and others like it. US troops fighting in the midst of a raging sandstorm. It seems to me that they are in some sci-fi film fighting on Mars. My friend Rudy has an interesting take, or question, about the theological/providential nature of the sand-storm on Urban Onramps. Scroll down to March 25, I think.

Now it's 12:40 p.m. (ten minutes after initial post) and I just went to the Drudge Report and there's another sandstorm photo and the headline, "This Storm is from God."

Comments

[Deanne]

I went to The Drudge Report; he must have changed his headline. But I was intrigued by this one: "Monkeys to detonate mines?"

The story link is here: http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030324-064259-1443r

My brother will be so angry -- he loves monkeys.

[Tim]

That is funny!