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Originally posted by goethean
Please. Undertoad's post today is political and partisan from beginning to end.
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I guess we each see what we want to see. Something similar to 'selective memory'. We only remember what we want to remember.
When I see the three pictures in succession I get:
1) Here is a father with his children, all smiling.
2) Here is the same man with a rifle and a source of religious belief. (It could just as easily have been the Bible, the Koran, the Kama Sutra for all I care.)
3) Here is the same man having suffered a horrible tragedy because of his actions.
And before you get all holier than thou on me, it
is because of his actions. If he really cared more about his family than where he was living, or what he was believing, he would have removed them from the situation.
People fled insert any given country: Britan, and came to America to start a new country; Cuba and came to America; fled Russia; fled Vietnam; fled from one side of Germany to the other, the list is endless.
That picture to me could have just as easily been an Isralie being shredded by a suicide bomber. That picture could have been... hell any place of warfare. It could have been the Vietnamese, as you suggest. It could have been anyone.
Look at the pictures themselves, and don't look at the individual. Look at the concept, the story the picture implies. You can read that story without having any captions at all. Put any one you want as the subject of that story, and the story turns out the same.
The individual is irrelevant. The story is retold countless times throughout history. This truely is the never ending story.
Quzah.