Reply #40: just a question... when and where [View All]

[Bluerthanblue]

have we honestly attempted to "understand why these people are doing this and correcting" our approach?

i may be completely ignorant- i'd love to be, but i don't see us ever truly looking at our own 'role' in the world. Odd, isn't it, how we all seem driven to look at what motivates individuals to commit crimes, (ostensibly so we can adress the motives, and improve the future) but when it comes to our collective consiousness- aka. America- 'we' somehow resent any implication that our own actions and in-actions have concequences.

oh shit, i'm one of those people Rove spoke about who wanted to understand why people would want to hurt us. It sure as hell couldn't be because we've raped them (clandestinely) for decades.- i LOVE my country, but i love ALL humanity too- and i was born by sheer luck into this nation, rather than Iraq, or Somalia or Croatia or Rwanda or Haiti or Guatemala ...... or so many other victims of world greed.