Again the people of the US government seem to have dug themselves into a bloody hole. Now EVERYONE is gonna hate them. In an argument, often a time when you know you cannot win, you resort to the - but your definition is different from mine - tactic. In fact, this is one method I often employ.
Seriously, what are they thinking? Exempt the CIA from the ban on torture? Are these people not ASHAMED of themselves??
When it comes to torturing people of other nationalities, it is justified in the name of 'collecting intelligence' for the greater good of all people. When one of their own people get caught and tortured, you can bet you booty they will make a lot of noise.
Are they then saying that an American life is more valuable than any others? That their 'cause' would always be the right one? One that every other nation should aspire to?
How do these people (ie. not all Americans but those who make up the administration) sleep at night? Knowing that at every minute, others are dying because of them? How does one smile and wave at an adoring crowd knowing that he has/is killing hundreds of people at that very second? This is most unnatural. All those smiles, all the waving. One would think they are actually enjoying it. Most unnatural...
The Bush administration has managed to further alienate its people from the rest of the world.
Ahh...so many people dying all around the world from all kinds of diseases/ events of late. Victims of the earthquake in Pakistan and India facing the forthcoming cold weather, poverty and AIDS in Africa, starving people in Tibet...so, so many...
What am I doing to help? Why am I not there trying to help? What does all this worldly posessions mean anyways compared to helping save the life of ONE child who then might not have to freeze to death? Perhaps many of you reading this will understand this dilemma. The inner conflict between wanting material stuff vs. spiritual satisfaction in knowing that your life is not all about you and what you have...
Maybe we are just too far removed from the actual situation. If I was in Pakistan right now, at the camps where thousands of people are all huddled together for warmth...think I would leave everything I owned there. Would you empty your entire backpack of things and just leave with your air ticket? I think so. How could you not?
Things is, we see things on tv and feel bad for those people affected, but then continue with our everyday lives after. Somehow putting it at the back of our mind while we go about collecting more money to buy pretty things to put in our houses, to wear, to entertain ourselves...
And after reading this, you will go back to your normal life and nothing will be done. And after typing this I will go back to my normal life and again nothing will be done. And then a few months down the road, we'll all feel bad again for the 'victims' perhaps talk a little about it again and express surprise as to why the 'situation' of the world has not change...
Perhaps we are all too far gone/ too set in our ways to see the real situation. People often say that there is enough resources in the world to provide for everyone. It is just a matter of distribution. WE are the ones hoarding all the resource. WE are the ones piling up landfills with so much consumer garbage. WE are the ones who have 3 cars to a family. WE are the ones who throw out food, yet consume so much that obesity is now a pressing issue in our society. WE are the ones who cannot wear a shirt anymore when there is a rip/stain on it. WE are the ones who have a cassette player, a cd player, an mp3 player, a stereo, different sets of headphones, three digital cameras to a family (two regular ones)...
I don't know what else to say.
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