A dark day for the planet, one which i feel will drag on for a long time.
Make no mistake
the situation which i see developing from these events is going to be very
nasty on both sides.
Already US officials are talking of full blooded retaliation and "Acts of
war" ( something i
thought was only possible between Nation States ) reports are coming in of
explosions in
Afghanistan.( which like many other reports around this incident remain to
be verified and attributed )
Retaliation of course will make much of the population of the US feel good.
But will guarantee yet another
cycle of internecine conflict. Unfortunately i cannot envisage the current
administration, considering
the mood of the US population, taking any other course of action.
But where did all this come from, lets be frank. Acts like this do not
spring up in isolation.
Many years of nee-jerk support of Israel's warts and all policies in the
region, combined with
pointless willingness to be confrontational with Middle Eastern nations.
Has resulted in the USA
These of course are not the only contributory factors, they are however the
ones that IMHO most US
citizens will choose to ignore. Which is almost certain recipe for another
full cycle of violent retribution
on both sadly misguided sides.being regarded as International enemy #2 in
the eyes of much of the Muslim world.
Add to this mix Muslim nations with a suspicious attitude to US motives.
Religions and cultures that
find much of the others distasteful or repugnant. Many pockets of Muslim
poverty, ignorance and
strict adherence to a perceived fundamentalists credo. And a sense amongst
many Muslims that the West
and the US in particular would never support one of their causes no matter
how just.
Please don't for one second imagine that i am in any way justifying actions
such as the ones
committed today. My own dear sister was probably saved, only by the fact
that rather than working
in one of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's WTC offices, she now works in the
Braodway offices.
However i do feel that ignoring the elements that have help to shape the
perspectives of the ( suspected )
perpetrators, is not the best way to sech a long lasting solution.
Humans are rather nasty violent primates, with huge propensity for ignoring
the suffering of "others"
this i know from experience, but we have to change at some point.
Zeb
"FURIOUS GREEN DREAMS, LAY SLEEPING IN STATE,
BUT SOON THE GREAT JELLY SHALL RISE FROM THE
DEPTHS,
AND ALL THOSE WHO MOCKED SHALL KNOW THEIR FATE
IS SEALED"
Guru Zeb,
Hacienda,
Manchester, 1989
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