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[Tavaros_the_Greek]

hhmm,I guess everyone sees things differently..

[Rain]

There's a really good article in this issue of Time, it raises exactly the same points I mentioned. Nice to see questions being asked in the media, perhaps this was a wake up call for the warmongers.

http://www.time.com/time/archive/pre...634639,00.html

R

[lagom]

Originally posted by Galina_26

Those soldiers are arguing they are not "individuals" but were ordered to do those things. That means "the hicks" go all the way to the top and the mindlessness runs deep. You can't call that using your brain....and if your passion is making naked men crawl around on all fours I can't call you a soldier.


[Edited by Galina_26 on 22nd May 2004 at 17:32]

I agree with you. There are also other ways to stop terrorism as this nice paper states


About Dave
Dave Zweifel has been editor of The Capital Times since 1983. A native of New Glarus, Wis. and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his life-long goal was to be the editor of this newspaper. He has had more luck achieving that than his other fondest hope — watching the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. He served for many years as president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and served two years as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes.

A piece in last Sunday's New York Times' Week in Review told an incredible story that adds meaning to our mothers' admonition to get us to clean our dinner plates, "Remember the starving kids in China."

This story wasn't about China, but about starving kids in all too many places around the world.

While we obsess over the Atkins diet and fret over the fact that obesity in our country is about to replace heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death, far more people in the world have difficulty just getting enough to eat every day.

Often they go to incredible lengths to get nourishment. For example, the Times' story reported:

* In Malawi, children stand on the roadsides selling skewers of roasted mice.

* In Liberia during the 1989 civil war, every animal in the national zoo was devoured but a one-eyed lion. Dogs and cats disappeared from the streets of the capital.

* In Mozambique, when grasshoppers eat the crops, people turn the tables and eat them, calling the fishy-tasting bugs "flying shrimp."

* Some Africans dig up anthills and termite mounds to steal the little grains that the insects have gathered in their nests.

* In Angola in the early 1990s, a World Food Program worker described a man who soaked an old chair for 15 hours to soften it and remove the tanning chemicals so he could use the leather to make soup.

Mothers go to great lengths to quiet their hungry kids, sometimes boiling water and telling their children that food is almost ready, then hoping they fall asleep, waiting.

Skins and bones of dead animals that even vultures are finished with may be boiled for soup.

In some parts of the world, people wind up making "cakes" out of dirt and eating them for the little nutritional value they may contain. Anything, it seems, to make a stomach seem full.

This is a piece of the world to which most Americans can't relate.

But wouldn't you think that if, instead of spending hundreds of billions on waging war, we spent that kind of money helping starving people get food and teaching them how to grow or raise it, we might actually do more to defeat terrorism in the end?

[C-Force]

Yes, I would rather see the money spent this way.

[Rain]

Amen...