9/11 Anniversary

[Venom]

The fact is EVERY country does stuff worth criticizing, but you never see that here because you're too focused on our country. Florida, ARizona, etc are always in the 100's during the summer and you don't see thousands of people dying here do you. No because the government tells people to stay inside as much as possible with air conditioning and gives symptoms of heat stroke, dehydration, etc. France did NOTHING! The heatwave wasn't just in France either. It was all over Europe and ONLY France had this bad of a problem.

[InRepair79]

[Venom]

[doug]

[Sufjan Stevens]

[Venom]

[Venom]

[Ray]

Here's a question -- after shuffling the reasoning for the war against Iraq around when we were found out, it finally was for the "freedom of the Iraqi people".

Yet soldiers still patrol the streets, and now have to engage in urban warfare with people they've supposedly freed. How the fuck is this freedom? Do you see soldiers on the street in America? No. There's still no real self-governing Iraq, and the foundation isn't even really seeming to be made. Bush, in my opinion, seems to only be staying in Iraq because he didn't have the support he had towards Afghanistan -- we've left that country as a shell. He knows he has to try to fix it, but he's got such a military-minded administration around him that he's being told to keep troops in there. Cheney and Powell are claiming that it's not a good idea to try to let the people sort themselves a bit, to let the troops fall back, as other superpowers like China are saying we should do.

Venom, we haven't accomplished anything because now those smiling people live in poverty worse than they had before.

The problem with Israel's existence is because it's essentially racism. Why is it that a certain ethnic group needs to have a whole country just for them? That exposes them to attacks that will occur much more often, because now the country as a whole is essentially a target -- you hit anywhere, and it's a big deal. If the Jewish community wasn't clumped together as it was -- and have land removed from another country that never quite agreed to giving that land up -- the Israel-Palestine conflict wouldn't be such a big deal.

Instead, self-righteousness takes over the human mind, and you feel that you're superior in some way because of your bloodline or your ethnic heritage. Pride has people declaring themselves "Italian-Americans" or "African-Americans" instead of just Americans, and "I'm an Israeli" is just the same type of pride -- which is okay, but many many people are too up-in-arms about their heritage. The Arabs have the same problem. Both think they're better than the other, that they belong there.

And, well, they fight about it.

Perhaps the philosopher Hobbes was right with his dim view of human existence.

[Corey]

[Venom]

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[Sufjan Stevens]

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