Still linking to the stuff.
Not for a second did I expect my own efforts to make a difference. But I did nurse the hope that my voice might combine with those of others — teachers, writers, activists and ordinary folks…Andrew Bacevich lost his son to a war he opposed.
(via Land of Lime)
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As much liberty as they may accord, democracies place a greater degree of responsibility on their citizens than authoritarian societies. Citizens of democracies are accountable for the acts of their governments implicitly in general, and explicitly in particular if they’re the beneficiaries of their governments’ acts of commissions and omissions. Subjects in authoritarian regimes are entitled for a natural immunity.
If the majority and responsible sections of the American society’s thought on Iraq is not in consonance with their establishment’s, the least that was expected was a demonstration of relinquishment of the spoils of war i.e the oil wealth loot. Moral right to complain suffer a natural dilution when one is a conscious beneficiary of the state’s policy.
Ironic as it may, the consequence of Iraq war seems to have accounted for more deaths of innocent men, women, and children than the very cause of it.
However, I personally believe that the right way of assessing the magnitude of a tragedy is by evaluating the degree of an individual’s trauma rather than the total number of people affected-which is a mere statistic.
Comment by Naveen — July 23, 2007 @ 9:19 am