I'll think of a good title later

Oh we do care, you and me, and other people here, in this blogging community. But I guess you mean society at large, the general community around the country, around the world. Well, speaking for myself I was an active political anti-vietnam demonstrator back in the decade of the 60s, marching with Tariq Ali and others on to the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square. Whether we made the difference or whether the demos in the US made the difference, or the bodybags tipped Public Opinion there is not the issue - my peer generation did something, attempted to make our voices heard. I think the fact is that in the present time there are so many 'mini-vietnams' happening (but the root faults, the base causes are still connected to US Foreign Policy)that there is almost an 'acceptance' of them as a 'norm' for the times we live in, or, perhaps, nearer to the truth, our leading ploitical figures are so involved in the body politic of the UK-US alliance that they continue to 'blank' all provocative questions -from the likes of you and me- and eventually many people become tired and cynical and 'slump' back with that "what-can-you-do?" expression in their voice and on their faces. Pretty sad huh? lokutus

Hello,

Yes, there are those who care what is going on. I have known from the start that all US involvement in the Middle East is because they whole area is floating on a sea of oil and has very little to do with Ben Laden or Hussein.

The US screams at the outrages perpetrated by Bin Laden and company, but what about the genocide that is happening in parts of Africa that aren't floating on oil? I am from the Get-Involved generation. I went to VietNam war protests and spoke out in favor of Women's Rights and in favor of Freedom of Choice vs. Freedoms being dicatated by a governmental body. They call us Baby Boomers in the US (I don't know about the rest of the world) Boomers are people born in the ten years after World War II. I slid in under the wire, with only six months to spare before there were no more so-called-Boomers being born.

We were the generation that ended racial segregation, the war in VietNam, and a promoted a hundred other causes. I will still defend anyone's right to free speech, even if I don't agree with a single word they utter, it is still their right to speak.

Which also makes me a very non-judgemental person.

Yes, there are those who care... one voice in the wilderness.

K4