A Lesson For Those in the Middle East
Many killed in Iraq suicide bomb: "At least 58 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the town of Musayyib, some 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad. Police told the BBC the bomber blew himself up near a mosque. The blast caused a nearby fuel tanker to explode. At least another 80 people are said to have been injured."
1776: English colonists in North America were mistreated by a government remote both geographically and politically so they rose up against their oppressors and created a new nation.Attention: Citizens of the Middle East. There is a better way, but if you don't want it, please let us know. If you want to have your lives dictated to you by cowardly men with no real vision beyond the power they can grab for themselves, we would be more than happy to come home and enjoy the fruits of our own struggles.
1789: French citizens were dying because of the neglect of their sovereign so they reminded the world through revolution that those in power serve only at the pleasure of those governed.It may be silly of us to assume that because we didn't want to be killed for enjoying freedom that everyone would feel the same way. Far be it for us to fight for you if you don't want to fight for yourselves.
1919: The peoples of India, tired of a long and unjust occupation of their country by the British, eventually decided that they had enough and brilliantly resisted their servitude to become the world's most populous democracy.It was wrong for us to not ask in the first place and I for one apologize, but it's hard for us to watch as children starve or are blown up. Watching as mass graves are filled with the bodies of innocent villagers who had a different ethnic background than the leader of the nation disturbs us so naturally we wanted to do something. Maybe you like having your Olympic athletes and their families tortured because they lost to athletes with better training, nutrition, and the love of their homeland.
1991: The apex of the fall of Communism in Western Eurasia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved when it's people realized that life could be better.If that's the life you want, fine. Just tell us. Don't let others speak for you. Enjoy at least one freedom before you give them all up.
