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Originally Posted by abaya
I must ask, have you been to that run-down, boarded-up part of your nearest big city? And if you have been there, have you gotten out of your car, walked into a store, and talked with people standing on the street or working in the grocery? I mean this in the literal sense. Or do you live in fear of what goes on in the ghetto?
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I worked in a few different places in the city of Detroit, Evergreen & Plymouth Rd (west side), Jefferson and 75 near the Cass corridor. Detroit is a crime-infested, drug infested, bleak, depressing, dirty, dangerous place for anyone to be. I understand there are reasons for these things. I understand there are deeply rooted, unfair, undeserved circumstances that people are born into, and may have no direct responsibility for at all. But there are reasonable and intelligent ways to respond to hardship.
I will be the first to admit that the way issues of poverty, anger, resentment, etc are being handled (and not handled) in the middle east, by the 'leading countries', leaves much to be desired. Over the weekend, I was watching coverage of the war, and they were showing an image of a building hit by an Israeli bomb.
The first thing that came to mind was, "That LOOKS like something al-Qaeda did or could do." I don't dismiss the emotional and psychological effect that viewing such destruction can have, especially those who are already halfway into the fight so to speak. And then we see the inflammatory rhetorical uses these images are put to in places like Pallywood, Teheran and Damascus to ensure the cycle of destruction continues.
It's messed up that the entire country of Lebanon is under the fist of hezbollah and Iran, but who's fault is that for allowing them into their house to begin with?