WAR, PEACE & PEOPLE

Friday, August 18, 2006

Is the U.S. the cause of many of its own woes?

If a complete stranger walked up to you and hit you, you might well be inclined to hit that person back. In addition, you would, if you were a normal, sentient human being, also like to know the reason - if only out of polite curiosity, or because you would prefer not to be hit again.

Alternatively, you might mount your own personal War On Terror – better yet, at other people’s expense - and go and kill, maim and destroy in some local neighborhood, where you thought some local undesirables might be lurking. In which case, one would hope that men in white coats would haul you away and lock you up in a padded cell.

Frankly, I’m not particularly surprised at President George W. Bush’s lack of curiosity about our various enemies motives – his focus seems to be solely on using terror for political advantage, and I would not wish to stress the man by suggesting that his brain retain two thoughts at once – but I am a little taken aback that five years after 9/11 so few Americans seem to be either interested or concerned that a goodly proportion of the planet now holds the U.S. in low esteem, or wishes this nation harm.

“Could we be doing something wrong?” would seem to the next logical question, but somehow it is not being asked.

It’s time that it was.

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