You have heard the expression, “It’s not rocket science.”
Well, when it comes to understanding the latest wave of violence in the Middle East, it’s not rocket science.
And it’s not “the film.”
The region is littered with countless matchsticks and political and religious terrain as dry as the U.S. drought.
It takes little to set the region afire, and anyone can grab a match.
So while much attention focused on a film that mocks Islam, a simple answer, most realize the film and its creators become secondary when you look a region rife with strife and no one with the ability to control.
Who is in charge in the region or in its countries?
No one.
The “old rule” has crumbled and the vacuum is being filled by any number of players including public apathy. How many people anywhere in the region believe anything will change for the better for them day in and day out whether democracy prevails or Islamic rule or something in between?
Very few.
And Tom Friedman, a journalist and author who has invested a lot of time and energy trying to understand the mindset in the region — among its “leaders” and its citizenry — asked this revealing question during a Sunday news interview show: While the regime in Syria goes about systematically massacring thousands of Islam’s followers in that country, how many Syrian embassies throughout the region have been attacked?
None.
But a film that killed no one sets the region afire?
No, it’s not rocket science, and no, it’s not the film.
It is and always has been “a way of life” — and death — in the region, and the prospects of that ever changing are nil.
Resources:
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000/…
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/…
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/…
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/…
- http://www.npr.org/blogs/…
Let's see, the murderers of tens of thousands including thousands of Americans have the "Right" to defend themselves? Really?
Then the US has the "Right" to wage a war of extermination against an enemy whose objective is to bring down all our nation stands for and subjugate us to a medieval religious diktat.
"War is not the answer" you say? I'd say that depends upon the question.
this is the same war thats been happeneing since the us first went into the middle east for oil..... and this is blowback, as ron paul said... the only smart enough candidate to actually see and admit that. ofc their not rioting about a film. they pick out few people with signs about the film and put them on the internet and advertise it all being about a film, in order to play it low, the muslims have been attacked by drones, and test strikes, id say they have a right to DEFEND themselves...
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