I totally agree with whats already been put.I really sympathise with all the victims families of 9/11 it was a horrible thing but it really does pale into insignificance when put alongside the millions who have starved to death in third world countries.
Nothing of major importance will ever be done to help though,not unless the rich governments find something of value for themselves in these areas.
The comparison is completely spurious , compounded by the fact that it is a selective view that belongs somewhere else.
I'm Bored.... in all honesty i'm bored of the whole "conspiracy", "oil" and "its insignificant compared to so and so event or disaster" ideas.
The fact is.. a hell of a lot of people died on 9/11.
A faceless coward of a terrorist was to blame.
No matter was else is going on in the world or has gone on it does not mean that this incident was any less relevant.
So this is how i see it... if you choose to forget it then forget it!.
Even if your not arsed then don't be arsed!.
But if people want to air their thoughts and choose to be angry and passionate about what isnt right in this or any other country then that is their right.,. just as it is anyone elses right to go on and on and on and on about the starving people in whatever country.... Theres an ex marine called william that sits at the end of the street whos starving for christs sake!.. why does it always come down to them starving people in africa or wherever else?.
So whatever the reason for this apparently unjust war! at least we are getting rid of some sick and twisted fanatics who use their own beliefs the way others of their religion would not!.
For all the anti war, pink and fluffy , its not winning but the taking part massive!
we wouldnt have the choice nor opportunity to air such views if we had'nt done "whats right" in the past!.
Could someone please take this soap box away from me and not give it back. Lets get back to the horny stuff!
Africa has had billions poured into it for year after year.
By everyone, including the usa.
The bank accounts of the rulers of said african countries get bigger and bigger.
The people still starve.
Meanwhile, various wars still fight on in africa, the guns still fire and the food aid gets appropriated for the "troops", the aid workers get killed.
Despotic rulers inherit countries of plenty and turn them into pits of dispair, and the guns still fire.
Democratic rulers run countries of plenty, for some, and nothing for others, while people starve and die of disease in areas where nobody cares. The aid workers still die, the children get to cure disease, the guns still fire, and the rich rulers....do they care about their own people ?
Nobody can cure starvation unless they first cure the sick minds of the people who "own" and "run" the countries that are home to the starving.
Tribalism, militarism and religion.
Three deadly sins.
This is something that i feel quite strongly about.. i was in the infantry for 8nhalf yrs i have sevred all over the world firstly in the gulf then northern ireland and at the beginning of 1993 where most of my nightmares come from bosnia,
my regiment were one of the first UN soldiers to be sent to bosnia i was stationed in Vitez, after some of the things i saw over there i am ashamed to be called a human being,
i don't really want to delve in to details, but let me put it this way me and my friends had to clean up certain villages after hey had been ethnically cleansed,. these villages didn't have bodies of men or soldiers these people were neighbours wives children and it was their neghbours who were killing them
. it is the sickest most disturbing nightmare i have ever dealt with and i'm not alone my friends were there and many others like them and many others still out there in iraq have a thought for the people who are out there now having to clean up the shit that we as human being make there is an evil in us all and i hope i never see it here.
Until last week, I would have voiced a strong opinion on this. Then last week I was training a course, on the course were two Ghanaian soldiers. On the Wednesday, one of them asked if he could keep his mobile phone on because he was waiting for an important personal call. During the morning, his phone rang half a dozen times. Each time he came back, his mate would ask him about the call.
At lunch time, I asked if being on the course was the best thing for him. It turned out that his family in Ghana had got caught up in the conflict, and he was trying to find out what had happened. The head fuck came, when he told me that if he and his friend had both been soldiers at home, they would have been on opposing sides.
The subject that day - Conflict Resolution. and the reason for the course - both soldiers (and everyone else on the course) were being posted to Iraq on peacekeeping duties. What they couldn't understand was why so much effort was being put into Iraq - and so little being done for Ghana.
It was easy for me to voice my opinion on issues when I was looking at the big picture, from a distance, but when it suddenly became personal, and I had to think about the individuals involved, I realised that I had no way of comprehending what it was all about.
I do believe that the original point of the post was correct - it is time that the events of 9/11 were put in perspective - one horrible tragedy in a world with too many.
lhk
Kat
I cry at those sad adverts on the telly with the kids on it with malnutrition etc. Such a shame.
I'm not sure that I ever doubted we were being lied to 
