tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097371042191607635.post4596439620114803281..comments2023-06-09T09:58:26.237-04:00Comments on Personal and political: World perspective of my 8-year-oldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097371042191607635.post-13848885021072572222011-07-26T13:27:39.636-04:002011-07-26T13:27:39.636-04:00A few more points to ponder:
I was studying polit...A few more points to ponder:<br /><br />I was studying political science in university when the Berlin Wall fell. Today's university students weren't born.<br /><br />Those starting university would also have no memory of the handshake on the White House lawn at the start of the Oslo process. They would have been kids when it fell apart in 2000.<br /><br />For a while, I was having some debates with a young Muslim mom on another board. She was born in 1989, and grew up in Mississauga. I'm sure she would have remembered September 11th - but I'm not sure that she remembers September 10th, and that's a huge issue. We have an entire generation of Arab youth who won't remember a time before 9/11, and to them it will be seen as an eternal conflict. They can't appreciate that the old fear was Communism, not Islam. They don't remember that in the summer of 2000, everyone thought that we were on the verge of a final peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, and that the Palestinians rejected it. They don't remember that NATO went to war in the Bosnia to protect Muslims from Christians.Law momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01859590966207623757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7097371042191607635.post-41029844049611150162011-07-25T16:11:14.096-04:002011-07-25T16:11:14.096-04:00Scary thought: for kids starting university this f...Scary thought: for kids starting university this fall the Reagan-Bush administrations ended before they were born and Bill Clinton is a name from their early childhood.Mighty Garnel Ironhearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09571194550300367249noreply@blogger.com