Republican fear mongering taking its toll

[MrScorpio]

Run time: 08:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urYWPil9V7o   Posted on YouTube: November 19, 2006 By YouTube Member: AuraX2 Views on YouTube: 21795   Posted on DU: November 19, 2006 By DU Member: MrScorpio Views on DU: 702

 
The Tone of this video is quite interesting on two levels.

One, instead of being virulent anti-arab and violent in tone, its quite thoughtful and gentle.

Two, its quite clear that for someone as well educated and thoughtful as he/she is, they are quite clueless about the causes and effects of Middle-Eastern violence and Middle-eastern culture.

Its very clear that his/her sources of information is quite limited and most of his/her frame of reference is constricted to the well worn myths of US altruism in international affairs.

I can imagine that this person has never read Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, or Howard Zinn. Nor have they questioned the motives of US policy makers and realized the consequences of US actions.

This is why good people vote Republican... They are sorely ill informed, even the well educated with good conscience.

Chomsky would say that this is a direct result of our education system, where the highly educated would be the one's defending status quo, regardless of the atrocities that are committed by it. Couple that with rampant republican fear mongering, this person represents a sizable chunk of the American population that is incapable of making sense of the current state of international affairs.

It's a big problem.

[martymar64]

1. If they only knew . . .

I mean REALLY knew, what WE have been doing to THEM in the Middle East for those past 40 years, they would be horrified. Or would they? Americans have been so far removed from the events in the rest of the world and sedated by our consumer culture that even if confronted with it in full, living colour, it would only register as an abstract notion. 9/11 was only the briefest glance into the horror that we have wrought. Would these same thoughtful people that made this video have the same reaction if they saw what was actually happening in Fallujah? Would they care? I don't know.

[salin]

2. funny, I doubt that had this technology been available

after the Oklahoma City bombing that we would have seen a similar video re: the virulent militia movement asking how we determine between white people and violent anti-american white people who are determined to kill us. Or one pointing to the Atlanta /Olympics bomber... or those anti-abortion shooters/bombers...