Very unsettling Huck, but who knows what might come out of it.
On another note altogether, I'm totally shattered about Paris. My wife and I were on our way to Alençon while the Hebdo thing was happening and
arrived to the reactions of my relatives there. We had just been in Paris for a week, two weeks earlier. Now this.
People are banging on about peace time attacks and acts of war, but, since at least the end of the Cold War, the West has been involved almost
perpetually in wars somewhere in the world other than the West, with no casualties for themselves except soldiers. For many countries, growing up with
death and destruction is the norm and that destruction is caused by weapons made in the West. Surely we must expect that there will be consequences
for this behaviour. These people are nutcases but what situation has created them?
The second world war, was a war that led to massive suffering on all sides. The wars we have been involved in since, have been very different, and
very one sided, and that is why I believe this kind of terrorism is on the rise. |
