Sheehan retires...

And nobody gives a shit.

Honestly, the minute her face was everywhere and she became "the face of the anti-war movement" I was wanting the woman to back down. I respect her opinions and her resolve - I'm very much opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - but the lady bugs me. I wasn't aware anyone was actually still listening to her, because, honestly, you can only scream so often until people get used to the sound and start ignoring it. Maybe the fact that nobody listens to her anymore has something to do with it?

She's left Crawford, Texas and is now, I believe, back in California; and is apparently very disillusioned with the anti-war and peace movement, and honestly I can't blame her. I'm burnt out on the liberals too. It's why I don't do much by way of activism these days, and its why I don't follow politics as close. There is no better side. Both the left and the right have a load of self-serving egotistical narccisists at the helm, and there's only so far that that can take you. It's the same shit on both sides - it just so happens that you tend to prefer your own shit to someone elses. Human nature and party politics are so very very messy.

I still believe in the diplomatic process, despite it's failings. I still believe in democracy, I believe in a government that is beholden to it's people, and that looks out for them, protects them, and supports them. I believe in supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it. I believe in supporting the poepl that fight for this country even when you dont support the reasons they are fighting. I believe that a government should be afraid of it's people and not the other way around. I believe that people can change the world- whether that's the world just nearby or the whole thing - and that we have a greater impact than we realize. I believe that we're all in this world together, and that each of us have a responsibility to ourselves and each other to make the world a better place. I believe that ideas and ideals are what inspire us and shape our actions.

And that has nothing to do with who "the face of a movement" is.