MrRodgers
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Yes, sifting through the chaff of the news day or week, there is much we hear but don't really consider. The same things happen in our minds with respect to history and due to our short attention span and our natural consideration for our family, friends and of course, country, do often...lose perspective. We tend to all too often...put on our own blinders.
Yet as recent posts have pointed out even more than one story slips through the cracks because it does not fit our preferred perspective. We'll often even dismiss it entirely, as if it really means nothing at all to the story we are watching now or...have this week. Well consider again how easy it is to lose perspective in a fairly short history of many events say...just since WWII.
So yes, 9/11 as a single event, galvanized the west and particularly in the US, has become a historical demarcation in what is now the world's 'War on Terror. So we start with that...more in Part 2.
So with that in mind, I will be posting an adaptation of a history of events and conflagrations...even what we all surely need to call, wars. With this in mind we are quickly reminded about the Jewish Holocaust of Nazi Germany, the many 'official' wars since and now and as recently posted, the true cost in lives lost due to radical Islamic Jihad-ism which is more correctly called terrorism.
So I add this:
After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also been responsible for causing those same feelings in people in other nations, but they produced hardly a ripple. Although Americans understand in the abstract the wisdom of people around the world empathizing with the suffering of one another, such a reminder of wrongs committed by our nation got little hearing and was soon overshadowed by an accelerated “war on terrorism.”
During any such research the first aspect noticed, is how quickly and presumably easy it is, to assert culpability. Obviously the very nature of a suicide bomber leaves out an army in the field from a country henceforth labeled the antagonist or the enemy. He's a lone actor and the blame must then attach to his handlers or motivators, maybe a group, That group is looked to as the real cause and often too hastily promulgated and likewise as often, even without direct evidence. Call it the cloud of war in...the "War on Terror.'
In my research for this post, one military intervention was missed entirely and will serve in my next post on this subject as footnote to a forthcoming Part 2. There will Part 3, 4 and more. Stay tuned.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
J K Galbraith
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Objective are we ? Let's not totally lose perspective P... - 
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