h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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"Rescueing a child out of a war is one thing, taking the war out of the child takes a life time .

Though we <?> must, to prevent these children to become as antisocial as them who made them so.

There is one positive aspect in a group experience of such danger, they know they can rely on each other. They also need this same group to recover, not forget, but to rediscover social behaviour to an acceptable level of normality.

I do not think we should give up all kinds of the 'patriotic, nationalistic or tribal' behaviour, we simply can not. It would however be good if the world as a whole should try and keep excessive group behaviour within limits. This also would involve acceptance of 'minorities', some will do anything to belong to a minority or even outcast.
Just what are reasonable limits (wether it is about (anti)national behaviour or a game with a ball)?

Armchair sociology . . . all world problems solved in a nutshell? "

Oh! my goodness! ZSF!

I wish I could!!

I went to www.CNN.com and then typed in Correspondent.

They came up with a whole lot of things and I found several headlines which I thought might be the interview which I had heard. I believe that I did it yesterday.
I would love it if you could tell me how to extract the link!. I am always most impressed when others do it - except for the dreadful case when someone gave me a link which gave me a t***** virus. It took me nearly two months and cost me lots of money before I got rid of it.

Sorry I cannot be more explicit.



AR1

AR1! Do you know how to select text by clicking over it? You can double-click over text to select it. I then press Control+C to copy, then I go to where I want to put it and do a control+V to paste it. Up comes the link.

I haven't found your link yet, but I found this one:

http://www.bigeye.com/050404.htm which is interesting. And this: http://www.bigeye.com/fc061304.htm

This article has an interesting comment:

http://www.bigeye.com/foreignc.htm - "Terrorism, as the great humanist Sir Peter Ustinov observed, `is war of the poor; war is the terrorism of the rich.'"

There was this on traumatised children: http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-koppel31303.htm

Aha - AR1 was it this one? http://www.hamline.edu/world/gjelten/gjeltenframe.html

I suspect, Websailor that the children were in shock, which would numb their feelings. I quite agree that school for them now, which should represent safety, may be very difficult to go back to. Maybe a different school may be easier, who knows?

Don't get me wrong, Websailor , I'm not saying that force should never be the right response, however from what I've heard and read, the Russians' actions appear to have made things worse, when they might have been negotiating earlier with less miliant people. I don't really know what the situation in Chechnya is/was. I get the impression that the Russians have been fairly brutal in suppressing the Chechens. There appeared to have been something about the 'Black Widows' avenging husbands and family killed in the war.

TiT "Rescuing a child out of a war is one thing, taking the war out of the child takes a lifetime" - yes, I agree. "armchair sociology" yes, I know it's easy for us to speak and difficult for the politicians. However, as Websailor said, they're dealing with people who aren't reasonable.