the news we don't hear
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miriam_eHere is what is happening in Beirut.
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2006/07/23_Frisk_empire-leaves.htm
It makes me weep.
Who is at fault? We are. We push it under the carpet. We don't look. We let it happen. We think it can't happen here. But it is happening here... slowly, creeping... as we allow our politicians to become more hardened and less responsible, more insanely religious. We have to speak to each other and stop it. Only we can. There is nobody else. If we won't, then we are all doomed.
Lies upon lies are laid down as a dark matting, suffocating, and at times feeling almost impenetrable. It seems hopeless. But that is part of the real enemy. It isn't hopeless. Darkness is shed easily by shining a light. We need to know. We need to undercut the calculated lies and pass on the untold news. We can't let this continue, or it will happen again and again and again. And when it happens here, to us and our children we will only have ourselves to blame.
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2006/07/23_Frisk_empire-leaves.htm
It makes me weep.
Who is at fault? We are. We push it under the carpet. We don't look. We let it happen. We think it can't happen here. But it is happening here... slowly, creeping... as we allow our politicians to become more hardened and less responsible, more insanely religious. We have to speak to each other and stop it. Only we can. There is nobody else. If we won't, then we are all doomed.
Lies upon lies are laid down as a dark matting, suffocating, and at times feeling almost impenetrable. It seems hopeless. But that is part of the real enemy. It isn't hopeless. Darkness is shed easily by shining a light. We need to know. We need to undercut the calculated lies and pass on the untold news. We can't let this continue, or it will happen again and again and again. And when it happens here, to us and our children we will only have ourselves to blame.
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Re: the news we don't hear
Date: 2006-08-16 04:37 am (UTC)They were a little like our side in Iraq. I heard a harrowing report recently about a bunch of "our" boys who were repeatedly beating a guy for fun. This guy would cry out "Allah!" each time he was hit. These sweet boys thought this was so funny everybody wanted to try it while the others stood around laughing. Eventually the beatings killed him. The hurried inquest absolved anyone of blame saying it was a simple accident. It seems likely the guy was just an ordinary taxi driver rather than a terrorist.
There is something about war that dehumanises and brings out the demon in most of us. I'm sure those guys standing around laughing at the torture of that guy were all good, average people... just like the cruel Japanese monstrosities who cut open women and killed babies in the Philippines.
I know you're not saying "our" side is blameless, just wondering why we are not equally decrying the evils of others. I agree with you.
War is the real enemy. The faces just shift and change.