For students attending schools at hundreds of military installations, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are a constant topic for discussion, even at the youngest of ages. Special correspondent John Merrow reports from one school in Fort Bragg, N.C.
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Transcript at site link.
Poets in Middle Eastern societies are often held in high regard, and many achieve a level of celebrity and authority not common in the West. Senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown travels to Israel and the occupied territories to provide insight into the lives of Israeli and Palestinian poets, writers in a place of conflict providing a voice for those who feel they don't have one.
April 6, 2007
Author Explores Both Sides of Conflict's Toll
Acclaimed author and peace advocate David Grossman has become one of his Israel's leading writers exploring the toll that war and occupation have taken on both Israelis and Palestinians. Jeffrey Brown talks with Grossman about being a writer amid the conflict.
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The above April 6th discussion is only one of the series, the rest are at the title link.
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a documentary film directed by Errol Morris and released in December, 2003. The film includes an original score by Philip Glass. It won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature for 2003.
The film consists of interviews with former United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, detailing his life and the difficult decisions that he made during his career. The term "fog of war" refers to the uncertainty that descends over a battlefield once fighting begins.
Keith Olbermann responds to Bush's comparison between Vietnam and Iraq.
Former Child Soldiers Give Testimonials in Footage Shown to ABC News.
"Democracy is not to force peoples to follow USA"
Photo's - The Children Of Iraq
The Neo-Cons of today, like their predecesors before them, Fascism comes to mind, believe that Ideologies can be Beat into others by Bombs, Bullets, and Destructive Force, in our case 'Democracy' and 'Freedom'. That is for those who Survive the Destructive Forces loosing Everything that was their 'Individual Freedom' that had existed prior to the Killing, Maiming, and Total destruction around them.
Their counterparts, the extremes of the Fundamentalist wings of Religious Ideologies, Christian, Muslim and Jews, and the Racists in All Societies, give them the needed backing to carry out their wants and destruction under the guise of Patriotism, Flag, Country and Group Think while completely disregarding the real teachings of those Religious Ideologies.
Why do we, Responsible Adults, keep teaching the children that this world exists only to destroy each other by forcing others to believe as we want them to believe?
Lessons of War never learned, but Opposite Taught and Embraced!
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