mAdMan wrote:Melvin, I really appreciate everything you have said, it helps to reinstill a little of my faith in humanity. Regardless, history will inevitably repeat itself. There are forces on both sides fighting to ensure that happens.
Yeah, unfortunately we never learn our lessons from history. Seems that all of this is about rich and powerful people trying to make themselves even more rich and powerful, at the expense of everyone else. Same story, different war.
The old timers around here know I was in NYC on 9/11 and saw it happen through an open window in lower Manhattan. Nothing will make you more angry and hate filled than seeing an airliner slice through a skyscraper, at least nothing I can think of. I was very angry for a long time. I started following world politics pretty closely on that day. It took a while, but eventually the hatred and fear began to fade. I realized that it was a waste of energy. A waste of life. Fear is no match for education. It's why organizations like IS destroy schools and make videos of beheadings to show the world. That's all they have. Put one of those guys on Jeopardy and he'd finish in the hole, lol.
On a semi-related note, I think the conversation between the two Sheriffs at the end of No Country For Old Men is pretty spot on, specifically:
"every time you try to get back what's been took from you, more is goin' out the door." and "you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waitin' on you. That's vanity."
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Coel, some people are talking about turning away refugees. Maybe not here. We have one of the hardest screening processes in the entire world. Bad people are everywhere. It doesn't mean we need to put up more fences and start the whole internment camp thing again. If you want to find bad people, look no further than our own government. Again, how did this whole situation get started? We don't have to look past Washington DC.
Anyway. In light of the Russian jet getting shot down today, let's hope Putin keeps his cool and we didn't just see the beginning of WW3. Turkey is a NATO country. If he strikes back, we're obligated to fight with Turkey.