This would work...
Dear J,
The implicit takeaway from
the video clips in your email is that Americans warm to "violence as a
solution."
The interrelated message is
that America should be more like "primitive" countries.
This reversion to primitivism
is part of an ongoing devolution in which American conservatives
"think" they want to live in the 19th century when six-shooters ruled
and humans lived half their lives with toothache (at least until 1850).
Notably absent in the clips
you sent are any European views. Watch this clip - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8601207.stm
We Americans do not want
solutions as much as we want "shoot 'em ups."
What's more, we don't just
like violence. We love violence!
When The Guy In The White
Hat does it, of course, we don't consider it violence.
Rather we conceive our
belligerence as Exceptional America smiting God's
Enemies.
Still, facts remain what they
are.
We dropped two atomic bombs -
both on civilian populations - in direct contradiction of Christianity's Just
War tradition.
Then we perpetrated a
holocaust in Vietnam
And a mini-holocaust in Iraq.
And a decade of havoc in
Central America where -- as a percentage of population -- huge numbers of
Guatemalans, Salvadorans and Nicaraguans were killed or maimed.
Keep in mind that these three
examples are just in our lifetime!?! (And Iran's "on deck.")
So...
Shall we discuss the
extermination of Native Americans? (In the 19th century, U.S. politicians
actually called the practice "extermination" and were proud of the
practice.)
Now consider the experience
of a functioning civilization:
Germany’s aggregate police
force fired 85 bullets in all of 2011.
New York City police fired 84
shots at a single suspect in April, 2012.
Source: The Atlantic
Bang. Bang.
Bad guy's dead.
Problem solved.
We now have more people
behind bars in absolute numbers -- and as a percentage of population -- that
any nation in history, including the Soviet Union at the height of the Gulag.
The Official Story --
and what's actually going down -- are wildly divergent accounts.
Pax
Alan
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