Is a word that I only hear when Ikram is busy playing Age of Empires.
Now I am reading the word 'skirmish' in the news because of the small but terrifying invasion in Sabah. The death toll is quite scary on our side considering the fact that:
a) The invaders are not even representing a country with any real military might (imagine if it was say, people with drones)
b) Our country is responding with policemen despite it being a matter of national security, which makes me wonder where the army is and what their role is
I do know very little about the whole matter but it just makes me very uneasy about how little prepared we are to deal with any intruding forces of our shores. On the other hand, good job to the villagers that could defend their village-- but what do the countrymen of a country do?
If you are like one Malaysian (some comment-happy person) you will use it an excuse to launch a tirade about how the policemen and ministers are useless.
I find it disgusting and highly inappropriate to be so whiny-Malaysian in such a situation. I am not one for saying lets all hold hands and stick together regardless of what happens--which is what some people take as 'unity'. Disagreement is fine, proposition and opposition (within reasonable means) is healthy, right left whatever. But that is all limited to when we are dealing about what happens within the country.
When the country experiences something as close to external threat as close to war as this, real countrymen shut their mouths unless they have something knowledgable and useful to say. And they only open it to pray for things to resolve peacefully.
Now I am reading the word 'skirmish' in the news because of the small but terrifying invasion in Sabah. The death toll is quite scary on our side considering the fact that:
a) The invaders are not even representing a country with any real military might (imagine if it was say, people with drones)
b) Our country is responding with policemen despite it being a matter of national security, which makes me wonder where the army is and what their role is
I do know very little about the whole matter but it just makes me very uneasy about how little prepared we are to deal with any intruding forces of our shores. On the other hand, good job to the villagers that could defend their village-- but what do the countrymen of a country do?
If you are like one Malaysian (some comment-happy person) you will use it an excuse to launch a tirade about how the policemen and ministers are useless.
I find it disgusting and highly inappropriate to be so whiny-Malaysian in such a situation. I am not one for saying lets all hold hands and stick together regardless of what happens--which is what some people take as 'unity'. Disagreement is fine, proposition and opposition (within reasonable means) is healthy, right left whatever. But that is all limited to when we are dealing about what happens within the country.
When the country experiences something as close to external threat as close to war as this, real countrymen shut their mouths unless they have something knowledgable and useful to say. And they only open it to pray for things to resolve peacefully.
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