I can usually take or leave Slate, mostly leave, but this post was good enough, and this comment cherry.
A comment from the Slate article The Worst Mistake America Made After 9/11
“When President George W. Bush traveled in Asia in the wake of 9/11, he spoke to his Malaysian and Indonesia interlocutors about their resident terrorist cells. His Chinese colleagues, meanwhile, talked business and trade.”
Or in other words, Americans talked about things that are not very important and Chinese representatives talked about things that do matter.
One of the things we Americans lack is an understanding of true suffering, true desolation. I wonder if this is why we make relatively small things like 9-11 into world defining tragedies while people who do know what it’s like to starve, who do understand what’s like to get bombed and run over by tanks, prefer to stick with growth and stability.
