not neccessarilly.
i remain skeptical, but i appreciate your viewpoint now and have added it to my understanding of the situation.
it was well stated.
that you are sensitive to the matter and why you are sensative to it is an interesting revelation and not something that i would ridicule. it offers me perspective and perhaps even culles the party line accusation.
but i also wouldnt say that the facts match up on the whole thing either. there are discrepancies.
an interesting *and unrelated *story if i may.
i was standing outside of a convenience store in atlanta a few years ago when a fight broke out. it was in the middle of the night and you had to go to the window as the store was locked up.
there was an indian guy who took on two black guys in a fight over something rather petty.
i was standing there right next to it the whole time, looking at it as if i were in some sort of safetly bubble. no fear. more of this detached sort of observer mode.
i watched as they took him to the ground and kicked him in the head.
i watched as he got back up and single handedly kicked thier butts even though he should have been down. he chased them out of the parking lot,
he returned and asked me if i could give him a ride.
i did.
within two minutes of being in the car with him he told me this. (unprompted)
a. his girlfriend left him.
b. his brother was one of the marines killed in beirut.
c. he had just achieved his blackbelt.
what occured to me then and has stuck with me, is that history is made of ripples extending out from events.
this anger, this rage that you speak of is universal and ever expanding.
it took 20 years for that explosion in lebanon to reach its conclusion for him.
20 years.
it is why i think america is doing itself no greater disservice than to be mucking around in foreign lands.
remember. it was reagan who presided over the cia training of the mujahadeen.
we simply got bit by the snake that we fed.
