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Parallel Worlds by Kelly Thomas
Why aren't we interested in World Affairs?
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(AFP/File/Paul Schemm)
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Recently, I had a discussion with some friends about the war in Iraq, the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, and assorted issues that most Americans should be concerned about.
Something interesting came out of the discussion: the baffling thing to my friends was that people didn't seem to be all that interested in world affairs.
What! I am amazed from account after account, my friends told of how they tried to engage folks in a meaningful discussion at their gym, grocery store, wherever and received little response.
My wife was recently on a business trip. She is somewhat a news junkie like myself. When I asked her, "What did business people sit around and talk about?" Her first statement was that it was not Iraq or Lebanon. What is going on? Are people jaded, uninterested? What! Are they in denial?
(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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I have an email group that I regularly communicate with on most subjects. Discussing Iraq with them often simply doesn't conjure up any response or a kind of benign, "Don't confuse me with facts, I have my mind made up."
What I tell my buddies all the time it isn't the liberal media. Just look at the situation: about three or four criminal charges of various sorts against our soldiers who supposedly have killed civilians; soldiers dying at the hands of those they were training; two young soldiers beheaded and mutilated; rape charges pending against five GIs; hundreds of Iraqis killed weekly.
(And, as of yesterday, Aug. 30, 2006, at least 2,639 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Associated Press. )
What is going on? No one wants to have a discussion on these topics.
Is it that we prefer not to talk about issues? Maybe we take it personally. To admit that the possibilities of our lofty goals in Iraq simply are almost nil, then we have to admit that we have backed the wrong "horse." Or, maybe, once having embraced something as truth, it is hard to admit that we might be wrong and need to go in another direction. Or maybe as mentioned before, it is denial: let's don't think about it or talk about it and maybe it will go away. God bless us all.
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American Casualty Report in Iraq
Thanks to Keyvan Minoukadeh
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