[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]Mufasa wrote:
Go to The Congo or Sierre Leone, my friend.
There are now about 2-3 generations into one. They are so far embedded into them, that they don’t even know what they are fighting for.
Average Squad Leader Age? About 14…
Millionaires on TV and radio insighting one’s passions and prejudices are not the roots of Civil War.
We’re too comfortable in the U.S. for a Civil War anytime soon.
Mufasa[/quote]
And the astronomical body counts, child soldiers, child rapes, and basic unimaginable human atrocities too horrible to comprehend. Funny it never get press here, people would be outraged if they truly knew what was happening there. But for some reason we don’t care. I don’t know that we can do anything about it, but it’s heart wrenching.
Nah, we’ll call each other names, but we are far from this. [/quote]
It actually does get some press. Look at today’s New York Times editorial. Look at the Economist’s coverage for the past few years.