American Views Abroad

 
There has to be a link somewhere. Trying to get the bigger picture, any idea for that matter, on how many Iraqis --- civilians mainly --- have been killed in the ongoing war and how the media are minimising US and British war crimes there at www.monbiot.com. In Bringing Out the Dead, Monbiot begins with the obvious: 'We were told that the Iraqis don't count.'
This article demands to be read in its entirety.

In today's IHT in an article discussing if France's riots could possibly start off something similar in other parts of Europe, the following is written:

'.....In general, Europe, which has never developed an immigration culture, seems to have been less successful than the U.S. at integrating foreign communities and giving them a stake in a new national identity. And, at the same time, immigrant communities themselves have been less eager than traditional immigrants to the U.S. to take on a new identity, continuing to adhere to their traditional identities, languages and customs.
www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/07/news/react.php

While at the New York Daily News: Racial Divide Evident in Military can be read at
www.nydailynews.com/front/story/363523p-309512c.html. Here the Pentagon's 'records track military recruitment by state, county, zip code and racial and ethnic group...... The national figures show what you might expect: Youth from low-income areas are far more likely to end up in the military.....a ghastly dividing line between rich and poor and black, Latino and white.'

There is no easy way to sum this up except for the obvious: if you are non-white, your chances of not being counted or of being trapped in a war are very good indeed.
- posted by Gloria @ 6:30 PM