The Furious Spinner

I'm not sleeping, so I'm posting. What can I say? Have you read A Family in Baghdad lately? (Thanks for the reminder, Patricia.) Faiza has been in the United States and her observations about our country are spot on: and really sad. (It's the July 10th post.) She writes, "In America, I saw a majority of people who are crushed, not comfortable...I learned that they do not study the history of other nations in their schools, nor their geography, and know nothing about other religions. . . their information usually comes from the Media, and that media is usually directed, owned by a number of wealthy people, the owners of the big, beneficiary companies . . . meaning; they deliver the news to the people according to their moods, explaining things according to their private, narrow, visions. . . I have seen the TV., and its just like in the days of Saddam Hussein, (as we used to say), repeating the same boring song over and over again, whenever you change the channel, you see the same faces, and hear the same talk . . . and its all about the war, the army, and fighting terrorism. . .

"So . . . the picture is clear, and sad. . . America lives in a semi-dictatorship condition now. . . What difference between that, and Iraq, at the time of Saddam Hussein?"

Wow. And that's only a tiny example of what she has to say. 0 comments

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