http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...mbs-hostage-syria-islamic-state-paris-attacks
I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes
A must read.
Was fascinating but I so agree with him:
My fear is that this reaction will make a bad situation worse.
And I think it is so hard for many to grasp that we are all doing the same thing and wondering why? All it is is words
what we call war they call terror, what we call terror they call war. We dont call oursleves terrorists, they dont call themselves terrists.
Those 8 people fellt just as justified on Friday as the folks flying overhead pushing the "fire" botton. Dead on the sidewalk in Paris is identical to dead on a street over there from a bomb blowing up right next to them,. Its dead. Peroid.
I just saw a flash thing GOP vows to ban Syrian refuges , smething akin to that, and my first thought was didn't Hitler kind of feel the same way........................
We are responding to their killing as they are ours. We call it collaterial damage, they point their guns at us . Death is death, so our anser to their atrocities last Firday is to go kill more ....I dont have the answer, but I really do not beleive that killing their aunts uncles brothers sisters friends, is going to decrease the liklihood, of them coming again.
Its a vicsious cycle with no end in sight
One steals from another, and the answer is steal from that person , the notion of decreasing stealing with more stealing makes no sense IMO....................its just like domeestic violence ....its circularity.............
Itis almost like asking relatives of a murder victim if they want the death seneance for the murderer - and it has alway bewildered me (might be a therpist thing) there is no such thing as closure- there is moving on , but closure implies just what it sounds like - when you finish reading a book and put it on the shelf does one forget what happened while reading it? The "story"?
Will those folks who watched heard smelled what wnet on last Friiday - ever BE ABLE to forget - its an impossiblity ...the human brain has memory that is its design..........moving on yes, really no choice actually , but forgetting, for not being startled when a car backfires, for those folks, that is impossible cause our whole world for all of us is about putting pieces together to make them comprehendable
Pavlov actually-- we hear a backfire, we hear a backfire, they hear a backfire , it triggers connections. That is what PTSD is all about , past assoications and events . Veternss cognitivily "know" that a huge car wreck is , in reality , not a bomb. But we are animals , and we do get conditioned - (hand on hot stove once usually does the trick)
Will any of them ever be able to go to a concert again, sure , but everytime they set foot in an envornment that recalls Friday - they will, inevitablely have an emtionial response to that set of stimuli, its ingrained, we need "patterns" to understand anything.
Hunger - food satiates - assocation. its a cognitive entity IMO
Oh, what I was , at the beginining (this rambly little head of mine) saying (!) I have never grasping the survivors of violent crime saying that it helps to know who did it. The person whom I loved is dead - gone. How can knowing if it was Jim or Bob ever change the reality- my loved one is gone-- does that make sense?
