War: Children grow up (Update)
What are the things you do and say during your growing years and later when close members of your family were killed during a war with America?
There are stories you share with your friends. There are shared feelings. There are large gaps in your genealogical charts; some of them with very abrupt endings. And most of all, there are questions. Lots of them twisting in the wind developing passions you never thought you were capable of having. I note many of our military personnel were also children, maybe not as young, but children all the same.
A child who was twelve years old in 2002 when the present day Afghanistan and Iraq wars began is now almost twenty. If you take the 1991 starting date of the war as featured in the above excerpt, he would be much older.
Richard Reid (Shoe bomber) was born in 1973.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (Underwear bomber) was born in 1986.
Faizal Shahzad (Times Square bomber) born in 1980. Reports say he is now thirty years old.
Children who were ten years old in 1968 hearing about their relatives murdered in the My Lai Massacre would be fifty two.
And now there is talk of war with Iran. I am mindful of the Louie Armstrong version of the song, “A wonderful world” and Ray Charles’ “America”.
All I want to say is stated in my heading: Children grow up. I think lots of teachers look upon society that way. I do. No hidden agenda. Just thoughts of the past and prayers on wings for the future.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
(Update)
The Making of a Terrorist
By ROBERT WRIGHT
Excerpt:
When you look at how much real-world evidence there is against the views of war-on-terror hawks, it’s not surprising that they would construct their own little universe, a place where “jihadi intent” is an uncaused cause, and our only hope is to kill or intimidate the people who, through some magical process that defies comprehension, have been possessed by it.
Read more at:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/the-making-of-a-terrorist/?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fopinion%2Findex.jsonp
There are stories you share with your friends. There are shared feelings. There are large gaps in your genealogical charts; some of them with very abrupt endings. And most of all, there are questions. Lots of them twisting in the wind developing passions you never thought you were capable of having. I note many of our military personnel were also children, maybe not as young, but children all the same.
The US-led war against Iraq did not begin in March 2003, as many Americans believe. In fact the US and Britain had been waging an undeclared war against Iraq for twelve years, ever since the end of the Gulf Slaughter in 1991 (see John Pilger's The Secret War on Iraq). The aim has been the destruction of Iraqi society enabling the US and Britain to gain control of Iraq's huge oil reserves.
http://www.serendipity.li/iraqwar.htm
A child who was twelve years old in 2002 when the present day Afghanistan and Iraq wars began is now almost twenty. If you take the 1991 starting date of the war as featured in the above excerpt, he would be much older.
Richard Reid (Shoe bomber) was born in 1973.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (Underwear bomber) was born in 1986.
Faizal Shahzad (Times Square bomber) born in 1980. Reports say he is now thirty years old.
Children who were ten years old in 1968 hearing about their relatives murdered in the My Lai Massacre would be fifty two.
And now there is talk of war with Iran. I am mindful of the Louie Armstrong version of the song, “A wonderful world” and Ray Charles’ “America”.
All I want to say is stated in my heading: Children grow up. I think lots of teachers look upon society that way. I do. No hidden agenda. Just thoughts of the past and prayers on wings for the future.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
(Update)
The Making of a Terrorist
By ROBERT WRIGHT
Excerpt:
When you look at how much real-world evidence there is against the views of war-on-terror hawks, it’s not surprising that they would construct their own little universe, a place where “jihadi intent” is an uncaused cause, and our only hope is to kill or intimidate the people who, through some magical process that defies comprehension, have been possessed by it.
Read more at:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/the-making-of-a-terrorist/?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fopinion%2Findex.jsonp
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