The same air

Isn't it ironic that in a time of war, that SARS breaks out? It's almost cliche, but the message that SARS seems to have is: it's airborne so anyone can get it, any country, any city, as if it's reminding us that "we all breathe the same air." Isn't it humbling to realize that no matter what weapons of mass destruction we build to destroy each other or nature, we're still pretty new at this... nature has more ways to destroy us and is way better at destroying us than we may ever be. Follow the logic of this administration and you'd figure that we have cause to take preemptive measures against nature, but even this administration wouldn't try that, albeit they'd say that we just aren't yet that advanced. We stick to the familiar — shooting each other, going to war. That's been the solution no matter what the level of the reigning civilization. It's rediculous to me to hear that any military is 'advanced' when war itself is still the same old war. I'm not impressed with how far the capabilities of soldiers have come when all they're still capable of is killing the other guys. War happens, I know, but with something like SARS in the air, or with Cancer and AIDS still getting in our bodies, you'd think we'd only brag about raising our level of sophistication against things like these — dangers we didn't even create ourselves. Nature's killers are more oppressive to us than our own dictators, more indiscriminate than our own chemicals, killing us more quickly that any human acts of terrorism, and arguably more advanced killers than any of us.