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Old 03-21-2008, 01:54 AM
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Default The World Thread

I've been thinking a bit lately, and doesn't it sort of strike to any of you that we're not living in a humane world any more?

Every freakin day when you look up the news or take up a paper it's all about death and killings and massacre and bombings and yet,
WE DONT CARE. No one bats an eyelid if you hear news of someone getting blown up or whatever. Everybody is so more interested in worrying about what the fuck some lame ass celebrities are doing up in Hollywood that we're just have become so de-sensitive nowadays.

Today's world is a world of prejudices. SBT is a place I have seen having a lot of people from pretty different racial and cultural backgrounds. I mean, yeah this is a pretty sensitive topic I guess, but I was just wondering, since all of us are here anyway and we think we know each other reasonably well, why are we scared to deal with these issues? I want to hear what yall have to say about some stuff.

Yeah, and before I start, this is my opinion. It's may be misinformed, though I try to be as unbiased as possible, it's my impression. It's what I honestly think about what I'm going to say.

Here's my take on the US. I've never been to US, and I'm not saying everybody else is perfect or anything, this is just what I have to say.

First of all, from what I've read, which may or may not be entirely true, I feel that Americans are terribly misinformed. And yet do not take any effort to correct their opinion. I once read somewhere the a huge percentage of the Congress people who ordered the Iraq war actually thought that Iraq was in Africa. How retarded is that? America today is undoubtedly the most powerful country interms of technology and military. But intellectually I feel that they are terribly misinformed.

I feel that America today believes in "good vs. evil". That the wars happening today are fights between "good" guys and "bad" guys. They probably must be thinking, why these Muslims giving shit to us?? They started it, so we gotta give it to 'em? I feel the American public is being taken for a ride based on these old wild west ideology of the good guys going after the bad guys.. just so wrong. What people should realize is that today's wars are not wars between good guys and bad guys.. These are wars on ideologies. The terrorists aint giving shit to you for no reason. You can't win those wars. You can't fight a cause or a mind. What America has to do is not stop the symptoms, but solve the cause, if you know what I mean.

I'm not a Muslim although Ilive in a Muslim country, and I'm not American so you call my view pretty neutral and informed I guess

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