Terrorism
If you're expecting me to make light somehow of the activities of the past week, forget it. I believe that you can find humour in almost everything. In most cases, even black humour is a mechanism to deal with grief and pain. But I can't find a single shred of humour in the wholesale slaughter of innocents. I don't find humour in the Holocaust, in Stalin's starvation of the Ukraine, the Vietnam war, the massacres in Burundi and Rwanda and Croatia, the war in northern Ireland, the list goes on and on, a list into which Tuesday's attack on America very neatly fits. And that's the sad truth, isn't it? While many commentators echoed the sentiment that the terrorist attacks on New York and DC caused us to wake up to a whole new world, that isn't exactly true…what it did is wake us up to the world that exists outside the previously safe shores of North America. In many ways, the attacks drove home the awareness that the world is a lousy place. Where here kids fight over fancy running shoes, in other places people are killing each other by the dozens for the chance to eke out subsistence on scraps of land so barren you wouldn't build an outhouse on it. In many ways, we've lived on Fantasy Island, an island oasis apar
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Approximate Word count = 1039
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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