How can I take seriously enraged rich and privileged students who want us to protect the environment by recycling a plastic bottle, yet it never occurs to them that all the bombs and weapons used in the Middle East are doing a serious damage to their beloved planet? Last time I checked we all live on one planet, unless these privileged students truly live on a different planet.”
I found that many choose to be active in what one could consider safe and convenient causes. While all these issues are important, the silences and complicity displayed on some issues rather than others the selectivity of expressing resistance and rage are hypocritical, to say the least. (doing a master’s and a doctorate degrees), I often noticed that young people were totally quiet when issues like wars and crimes against humanity in the Middle East came up, but they were very active and vocal when issues like recycling, environment, or global warming came up. “uring all my university years in the U.S. At this stage the rebels were numerous, strong, motivated, and moderate and I made that clear in my reports on the air.”Īnd Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East (The rebels would usually communicate with each other on Skype, blending in with the billions of people using the Internet instead of going through cell-phone towers.) The United States was apparently still skittish about sending in arms because it feared they would end up in the hands of Islamic extremists, but that, like so many unintended consequences of US foreign policy in the Middle East, was a self-fulfilling prophecy. In my conversations with rebels it was clear they were becoming increasingly disheartened and desperate. Now in Syria, Assad was threatening to crush the opposition in Aleppo and had already started doing it, but Washington’s reaction was only hand-wringing. Gadhafi threatened to overrun Benghazi and when he tried to do it, NATO started bombing.
“On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were desperately low on ammunition and expressed dismay that the international community had not reacted when a huge massacre could be coming.
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