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Originally Posted by AAAAA
We have made mistakes in our history that is for sure. One of the reasons I am… dissatisfied with events post 9/11 is because in my naïveté was that I was positive we had learned from thouse mistakes.
We live in the information age. Very little can happen in this day and age without everyone knowing about it immediately. There are aspects about this that bother me but to me. However I thought that if the government were to take my neighbor in a manner unfairly people like me would immediately stand up and say “you cannot do this.” I have learned that this is not true. It is in fact worse now in my opinion. All the government has to do now is utter “terrorist” and there is nothing that can be done.
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I'm sorry to say this is not new, in the McCarty age of USA history, your neighbor could also be taken and no one would have stood up and said any thing for fear they too would be taken. At that time it was "communist" instead of "terrorist" that was the power word. History is a tricky subject, becouse a group of people who are in power at any one time are the ones who decide, what books shall be used and what shall be in those books. A history teacher(collage level) I know who also writes history text books was told to remove a picture of a woman linesmen(a person who works on phone lines, electric lines that run along the roadsides of warmer states-it would give woman too many ideas--2004) and a picture of a hipanic man influential in state politics. He had to decide which to fight for. He gave up the picture of the woman. The all white male repubilican board was deciding at that time what would be included in all school books, including history. History is and has always been defind by the winning group.
You are right that we can not change until we learn from the past and learn from the mistakes of history, but first we must know all the history. Not just that which has been given the ok by the controling group. I see post compareing bin to hitler and I don't agree, hitler lead an army, he is more like a Roman generals or Genghis Khan they wanted to rule the world, whereas Bin is more like the Americans in the revolutionary war, they were fighting for a freedom and idealogy. Had we lost our forfathers would have been painted with a very black brush and their capture and death celabrated. History is a big reason I can not celabrate the death of any man, woman or child. He did believe in what he was doing, who am I to say he is wrong. Our forfathers caused the death of many and they used terroristic methods to win. They had to, they did not have the training, or the might of the English army. Prehaps my experinces in life made me an early cynic. Maybe it is my knowledge of history, but 9/11 was no worse than many other times humans have made poor choices. It is just that the world is so much smaller now and the wepons and things that can be used as wepons are so much larger. His death, only makes me look closer at my part in the world, and America's part. We are not guiltless, any more than he is all guilty. Excuse my tpying my nerve condition(I try to catch it when my fingers hit random keys, but I've noticed I haven't been catching them all-sorry about that) is flaring up, and I shall put a trigger icon on this for posible political post. However I do wish all who reads this thread peace.
I have no aguument with anyone, I just wish to express my POV and what I've learned about schooling in America. I do hope that doesn't make this political, but simply factual.