{VIDEO POST}

[bentflame]

[Have an Azula wearing red harem pants and a loose tunic-style shirt (this is video because she wants to show off her new clothes, OF COURSE), and looking to be in a better mood than she's been in recently (NO MORE WHINING, YAY)]

So as it turns out, I did go shopping last weekend. It wasn't as difficult as I had expected to find Earth-style clothes that I like, and I suppose--

[Suddenly Rachel starts making some cute happy gurgling noises offscreen; Azula gives the crib a quick, slightly irritated glance]

Hush.

As I was saying, I suppose it makes sense to wear Earth clothing during the times that I'm on Earth; I was getting quite sick of people asking me if I was dressed up for a play. And they never seemed to like the answers I ga--

[And she's cut off again, this time by herself, as she starts to sneeze six, seven, eight times in rapid succession]

... Ugh. That's disgusting.

[Winter colds are a bitch when your body's not used to the climate 8)]

Comments

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

In and of itself? No, it isn't. It's a means to an end.

[pandorabox]

It's the most extreme form of foreign policy. You claiming it isn't is just you showing your own ignorance.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Right, I'm the ignorant one.

Conquest is foreign policy. War is a means to achieve that.

[pandorabox]

War is foreign policy, conquest or not.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

War is the act. Conquest is the idea. War is the carrying out of the policy of conquest.

Come back when you know what you're talking about, Kaito.

[pandorabox]

You talk about them like they're mutually exclusive.

Why don't you come back when you know what you're talking about. Conquest can be achieved without war. Not usually and it's difficult, but war is foreign policy.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

No I don't.

I do know what I'm talking about, because I'm the one living it.

[pandorabox]

Yes you do.

Obviously not, if you're not claiming that war in and of itself can be used as foreign policy.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Do you even know what the term "mutually exclusive" means? Because that is certainly not what I was doing.

The idea behind the war, whatever it may be, is the policy. The war itself is an act of carrying out that policy. How do you not understand this?

[pandorabox]

War itself is the policy you use to carry out the ideals. You could use a different method, but you don't.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Of course we could use a different method to carry out our policy of conquest, but we don't. This was the one that was chosen by my great-grandfather over one hundred years ago, and I'm not about to just halt it without good reason.

[pandorabox]

Even though it's hurting others.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

It's not hurting as much as they think it is.

[pandorabox]

I think they would know how much a war against them is hurting them.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

They're overreacting.

[pandorabox]

Of you're just blind.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I've seen the effects the war has caused. Most of them aren't permanent.

[pandorabox]

Death is permanent.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

There are casualties on our side, too.

[pandorabox]

Then what's the point? Other than your pride.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Conquest. Stop being dense.

You know, just to make things clear-- Fire Lord Sozin didn't wake up one day and say, "I think I'm going to start a war for the sake of my great-granddaughter's pride. She'll be born in about ninety years; I'm sure it won't be over by then."

[pandorabox]

Which is part of your pride.

Of course not. He decided to start a war based on his pride, which you inherited from him.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

He started a war based on improving the Fire Nation. It wasn't a selfish act, and it isn't one now.

[pandorabox]

Improving the Fire Nation by hurting thousands of others. It was his pride in himself and his country that started the war.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

In his country, not in himself. You didn't even know him; what makes you think you know?