Getting Political
I knew it would only be a matter of time before I wrote something about politics or religion instead of just writing. Well, here goes. The U.S. claims to be fighting a war on terrorism. Well, when I was young, we were fighting a war on poverty. We didn’t go out and shoot poor people; we tried to help them. In the sixties and seventies, we also fought a war on bigotry. We didn’t go out and shoot bigots; we tried to be unlike them. Why, when we are confronted by terrorists who attack us with weapons, do we feel we must retaliate the same way? You can’t shoot an “-ism;” it can only be changed from the inside out.
January 10th, 2010 at 9:30 am
A thoughtful insight and ideas I will use on my blog. You’ve obviously spent some time on this. Well done!