I repeat, it is absurd, and quite literally unbelievable, even to people from other, comparatively harsh Anglo-Saxon societies like the UK, and especially to people from places like Australia or New Zealand (which themselves are not really that great compared to Europe. Having Anglo heritage sucks). How in the world have people in the US been conned into thinking they've got it made in the greatest society on Earth? I know modern propaganda was invented there and is applied mercilessly, but even so, it beggars the mind that people put up with this crap ...
Osama Bin Laden has not forgotten. Read his words. If you can find them.
How can they overlook this? The same way that the Lancet study recording state-of-the-art casualty data suggesting that three quarters of a million dead people were a part of the human price (to date)for our oil theft, can be disappeared. How can we overlook a dead sparrow - on the killing fields of a million plus people?
Easy.
Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.
Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Not likely to change, either. No politician will go near the subject. The Fates are kind.
