Playground feuds acted out on a global scale

[muriel_volestrangler]

http://www.sundayherald.com/41323

Muriel Gray wonders what example bush and blair are setting today’s children

It was an interesting if depressing observation made at the recent NUT (National Union of Teachers) conference that this generation of children are suffering from Thatcherite parents who have passed on the empty values of selfishness so prevalent in the 1980s.
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Islamic fundamentalist leaders, the ones who implore the poor, dispossessed and confused to blow themselves up whilst curiously never opting to do the same themselves, are not fighting for their God any more than Bush is fighting for his, as he sentences more young American soldiers and innocent Arab civilians to their deaths in Iraq. They are fighting purely and simply for personal power, and as such their ‘ideals’ have never been more closely aligned.

If modern British children are confused as to the meaning and purpose of society, and strangers to the notion of personal integrity and responsibility, then it’s hardly their fault. The hypocrisy, deceit and downright bad behaviour constantly displayed by those in power is not confined to Margaret Thatcher and her demonic cabinet. Blair’s government might preach a different sermon to the ‘greed is good’ mantra of the 1980s, but the example they are setting is one of power-crazed, hypocrisy that masquerades as compassion.

In some ways it’s almost worse. At least Thatcher more or less had “I’m a complete and utter bastard, and you can be too if you try hard enough” written in neon lights on her forehead and the decent citizen could make a judgement and act accordingly. It’s much harder to deal with this current crop of duplicitous villains. The really important western and eastern ‘value’ they have communally destroyed is perhaps the most treasured of all. Trust.

[donsu]

1. I've often thought the bushgang acted like 9 yr. old boys acting tough

anyone who has been around 9 yr old boys know how they get excited over a new, if nutty idea, and go racing off to try it out. make loud, bold, statements full of holes, and get totally upset if a parents stops them.

some determined 9 yr olds need more then words to stop them.