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Multiple 9/11s every day of the year
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 Multiple 9/11s every day of the year: Why is there no war on this terror?
According to the video documentary, “A World Without Water,” (you can watch it at the bottom of this post) “every day 3900 children die as a result of insufficient or unclean water supplies.” Most of these children, under 5 years old, are dehydrated to death — slowly, excruciatingly. According to UNICEF, “9.7 million children under five die (every year) four million in the first month of life. Most of these deaths are from preventable and treatable diseases. These children don’t die from birth defects or incurable diseases—they die from infections, diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, measles, and other causes that are almost unheard of in our own country. Undernutrition is a key factor in up to half of all child deaths.” That’s about 27,000 children dying a day from easily preventable or treatable causes. Their parents drown in their own tears. Their only crime was to have the misfortune of being born on the “wrong” side of the tracks — both globally and within their own countries. So successful has been the dehumanization of these, the wretched of the earth, that year after year the holocaust of 10 million children remains invisible and silent to those with full bellies and working faucets. We don’t allow our young children free access to money and bank accounts because we haven’t yet “taught them how to manage money wisely.” We fear they would fritter it away on toys and candy and perhaps do something reckless, like give some of it to friends. Literally millions of pages have been written waxing eloquent on how best to teach children responsible money-management skills. Yet the world over, wise adults collectively spend $1.1 trillion every year on weaponry — weapons that, by denying people food and water, kill millions every year without ever firing a shot. I take that back. As the reprehensible NRA is fond of saying, “It’s not guns that kill people” without ever firing a shot. It’s people who kill millions of people every year without ever saying a word. Leading this global blood lust is the United States, where “our military spending exceeds the rest of the world’s spending combined, and we spend almost 10 times what the second-place country, China, spends.” (Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com). As Glenwald observes, there is a “bipartisan consensus on U.S. military spending .” Yet a dollar a day can feed, clothe, house and educate a child. A dollar a day can prevent the death of a child who has the same right to life that you and I do. Instead we have an annual holocaust that murders 10 million of the most innocent, vulnerable and voiceless human beings on this bloody planet. In this we are all silently complicit and all the water in the world can not wash that blood off our hands. Can someone please explain to me why there is no war on this terror? * 1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to safe water, roughly one-sixth of the world’s population. Have Your Say: Multiple 9/11s every day of the year Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. 3 Responses to “Multiple 9/11s every day of the year”
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This was a very moving article,how can she connect the N.R.A. in anyway is amazing, I’m pro N.R.A. I believe just as you do on everything else, what is so strange about taking my children and relatives to the shooting range and skeet range for a little family shooting competition? We go bolwing together, we ski and ride dirt bikes also. I also sleep better knowing if some thug comes to kill and seconds count, I won’t have to wait for the Police who are minutes away at best, Don’t forget a armed Citizens stop more crime than the Police, just the chance you have a gun keeps you safe at night. Go to a indoor shooting range and have someone teach you to fire a revolver at some targets you will love it!……….