Kakki wrote: > > If I may ask a question (and not to be argumentative or direct this at you, > Joseph) why must it be assumed that the terrorists are only after the U.S. > or those who support the U.S.? I know that is the propaganda fashionable > among those who like to be anti-U.S., (not you Joseph) but these groups of > terrorists have been killing and terrorizing many other groups of people > mostly unrelated to the U.S. in the world for many years and continue to do > so. Jews in Israel and Europe, Christians in East Timor and Lebanon and > Somalia, Russians in Chechen, Serbs in Bosnia/Croatia, Northern Alliance in > Afghanistan, Hindus in India, Anwar Sadat in Egypt, Kurds in Iraq, rival > mid-east groups and the list goes on and on. I just flip that some in the > world suddenly want to conveniently forget many years of incidents against > people other than Americans or their "supporters." As long as people look > away from the truth, whether deliberately or because they do not know other > information, any hope for a solution will be that much further away. Not > that I have a solution, but as with any problem, one must look at all the > sides of it, honestly, before any real hope for change can happen.
Dear Kakki, As you said in your BRILLIANT post, the list goes on and on. The sad truth is that human life doesn't have the same value depending on location. Simple arithmetics: in order to get media attention 5 American lives = 500,000 Tibetans = = 50,000 Kurds = 1 Palestinian = 100,000 Tutsis. These numbers are just an example but you get the idea. Who's to blame: Short attention spans? Journalists? Violent movies? All of the above? Laurent
