tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post4402903265658206040..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: "The handing over of all power"Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-54243254893033650062013-03-14T10:49:00.088-05:002013-03-14T10:49:00.088-05:00Thanks, DC!
Although Rand Paul's concern la...Thanks, DC! <br /><br />Although Rand Paul's concern last week was only about possible killing of American citizens on American soil, his filibuster and arguments surrounding it did at least keep the drone issue in the news cycle. <br /><br />The "American soil" part of the issue is the least worrying really - because if it ever did occur Americans would be out on the streets protesting in their millions.<br /><br />But if focus on that part of the problem is what it takes to get people involved - then so be it.<br />It's better than nothing.<br /><br />I'm with you, all the way on this. It's the use of drones in other countries, when war is undeclared, that I find most worrying. The old "they hate us for our freedoms" is downright rubbish! "They" (the ordinary people of the countries involved) hate us, if "they" do indeed hate us at all, because we kill their families and friends for no reason, and we are never held accountable.<br /><br />Very good and relevant quotes, those - thanks! :-)<br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-1121215648705930212013-03-14T02:58:26.465-05:002013-03-14T02:58:26.465-05:00This drone program is nothing short of inhumane......This drone program is nothing short of inhumane.....sterile unattached killing by our own citizens of foreigners and yes, now even it's own citizens. And with no due process?! American's attitudes towards other countries is really scary.<br />When it comes to American people's opinions of "foreigners" I can only speak through my own voice of experience.<br />After living in Turkey for nearly two years I realize now, how wrong,and just plain stupid most people were when they judged a foreign country from their comfortable corner of the world. This is usually done by those that have never even been to a foreign country themselves.<br />I often look up "travel" quotes in regards to this, and your article reminded me to do so again, so I'll share a couple of my favourites with you...<br /><br />“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” Mark Twain<br /><br />“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”<br />― Gustave Flaubert<br /><br />“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the relgion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”<br />― James A. Michener<br /><br />“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou<br /><br />“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley<br /><br />DChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404195170822950372noreply@blogger.com