Thursday, April 29, 2004

Posted here Thursday, April 29, 2004 at 1:12:44 PM     What is the possibility that the use of materials to create havoc, usually called terrorism, is actually passé. The whole can be seen as an episode, perhaps starting somewhere between 1945 and 1990. The problem is that the way our own leaders bought into it made it worse - by showing its efficacy. And, a big and, it drove other issues off the front page: environment, the fate of marginalized people, the problem of children, the direction for a healthy world economy beyond market voting, and prevented people from feeling the calm to have decent lives. But most importantly it has kept us from seeing the world that creates the motive for terror. The current theory is that failed states breed terror (the terror map), but the reality is surely more complex. Tim McVeigh did not live in a failed state. Unless we broaden our concerns to real social issues. ********