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brea 02/08/2010 06:14 PM Report
the interview sounded to me, like a curious man in search of BELIEVEABLE answers to many of lifes questions. certainly was a period i went through. vietnam did wonders for my perspective regarding this country's behavior. america's behavior since has done nothing to improve my disposition. the institutions are corrupt to the core! what and how do the "leaders" of this country expect young people to believe in? do they think young people are enamored w/ the way america is being run now? what do they have to look forward to? the exclusionary right wing catholic church provides an example for society? certainly no better than the islamic option. the blatant self serving hypocrisy of this country is tantamount to treason against ALL THE CITIZENS IN IT!!
carry on you fools - soon the revolution and terrorists will reside in entirety from w/in. our "leaders" have succeeded where the "terrorists" have failed. many will follow this young man and they won't necessarily have to go to somalia. empires fail from w/in as we all know.
who and how could ANYBODY actually believe in our country at this point? we have decades of repair to make and the time to begin is NOW!!! it's not a complex problem, our leaders and people in general know what needs to be done.
set an example, demonstrate the will, and create an inclusionary society. NOT greater divisiveness based on lies, greed, and a 2 party system who's primary differences are wordsmiths obfuscating minutae.
we have met the enemy and he is us!!!
ShalomFreedman 02/08/2010 04:26 PM Report
I was a bit surprised by the tone of this interview, and also by the kinds of questions not asked. I didn't detect any sense of condemnation or outrage in the reporter's remarks. She also does not tell us anything about his parents' feelings. She makes it seem as if he has made some kind of understandable 'cultural choice'. Perhaps she and Charlie Rose simply assume that everyone knows that to be a Radical Jihadist is not to be a nice person, but to call for and attempt to bring violent death to one's enemies, in this case first and above all, the United States. We are talking about Treason of an American citizen in the worst way imaginable.
REMant 02/08/2010 02:10 PM Report
Remove the Islam part, and I think you would find a lot more similarity with Americans and Europeans. It is as she indicates not at all a matter of money, but its opposite, of virtue. Indeed, that he came from Alabama says a lot all by itself. But this is more than a "culture clash" in an historical or geographic sense, and one that ought to be very familiar to those who've been around the "culture wars" in this country for the past generation.