Look closely at the picture of this 23 year old who's now sitting in a prison somewhere in Detroit. It is tough, but stop thinking for a moment what he tried to do which would have ruined 100's of families had he succeeded. Instead, think about him and any other kid in Detroit or any other place in this country, where a 23 year old got caught up in drugs, became part of an armed robbery, or worse, went into a school with a gun on a shooting spree. It just takes a couple of such incidents for us to start blaming the neighborhoods, schools, internet, or whatever else it is in the society that is causing young people to go astray. No one says, "hey lets bomb the living daylights out of the neighborhood where this guy grew up", or lets get rid of the mayor of the city, the governor of the state, or government of the country.
No one pauses and wonders about the enormity or the roots of a problem that can skew the basic sense of right and wrong in every impressionable 23-year-old to such an extent. He has done this, therefore he is evil, and so is every other person who comes from where he came from or looks like him.
It is a social problem when someone amongst us harms us, it is terrorism when someone from another country harms us. Hence by definition, we will never think of a social remedy for the problem we call terrorism. Which may really be the only way to look at it if it ever can be solved.
1 comment:
well said! perspective is something that lacks in this world
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