Let Me Get This Straight...
Under George W. Bush, America attacks Iraq and leaves it in shambles for the good part of two years. Pundits go back-and-forth over the psychological damage done to the people, but the consensus (more often than not) was that it was an acceptable side effect of fighting terrorism.
That line of thinking, in conjunction with this:
got me thinking about the biggest problem Americans have in regards to terrorism: when it happens to other nations, it's something they should be used to or something they should accept. When it happens to us, there's this wild-eyed shock, like, "What did we ever do to deserve this?"
Around the world, people are kidnapped and blown up on a disturbingly regular basis. But selfishly, we only seem to pay attention when it directly affects us. Bush himself said repeatedly that our Iraq strategy was implemented in order to not "fight them over here."
And seriously, you would think that a country that's so gun crazy, so into movie violence and still has the death penalty in a number of states would not freak out about a kidnapping of one of their citizens by a foreigner. You would think.
That line of thinking, in conjunction with this:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani militants on Monday kidnapped John Solecki, a senior U.N. official, in a brazen daylight attack that killed his driver, the United Nations said.
The U.N. conveyed its "extreme shock and dismay" over the attack, and said in a statement that it is "taking all possible measures to secure (Solecki's) release."
got me thinking about the biggest problem Americans have in regards to terrorism: when it happens to other nations, it's something they should be used to or something they should accept. When it happens to us, there's this wild-eyed shock, like, "What did we ever do to deserve this?"
Around the world, people are kidnapped and blown up on a disturbingly regular basis. But selfishly, we only seem to pay attention when it directly affects us. Bush himself said repeatedly that our Iraq strategy was implemented in order to not "fight them over here."
And seriously, you would think that a country that's so gun crazy, so into movie violence and still has the death penalty in a number of states would not freak out about a kidnapping of one of their citizens by a foreigner. You would think.
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