Comment Re:Middle East Wire -- Interesting (Score 1) 1391
Actually I think a female Pakistani professor said it better on a BBC documentary recently. She said:
"The United States and the western world has to realize that one third of the worlds population is Muslim, and as long as they(we) stick to either ignoring or hating them, they(we) will never get to the root of why these horrible things happen".
She went on to say that we had the choice of learning to help people on their own terms, or kill them all, because our policy right now is definitely not working.
However tempting it might be, in these days of retaliation stupor, I think I would prefer listening to some hard truths and taking the long and costly road rather than killing one third of the worlds population.
(Maybe I'd support killing a few hundred terrorists first. I'm not inhumanly pacifistic)
"The United States and the western world has to realize that one third of the worlds population is Muslim, and as long as they(we) stick to either ignoring or hating them, they(we) will never get to the root of why these horrible things happen".
She went on to say that we had the choice of learning to help people on their own terms, or kill them all, because our policy right now is definitely not working.
However tempting it might be, in these days of retaliation stupor, I think I would prefer listening to some hard truths and taking the long and costly road rather than killing one third of the worlds population.
(Maybe I'd support killing a few hundred terrorists first. I'm not inhumanly pacifistic)
