So, it's been a few weeks. The Surge, the Democratic Congress, Rumsfeld go bye bye, Solar New Year, Christmas. and today...Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King's Day. An opportunity to reflect on the absence of great social leaders and the need for expanded human rights. However, it is civil rights, not human rights that seem to be the focus of American politicians. It's a common belief that there are no human rights violations taking place within the United States. Civil rights are human rights in disguise, in America, it doesn't feel possible to consider violating human rights. For many would be leaders and social activists, human rights are a foreign, not domestic problem.
Sitting here with my finger on the pulse of CSPAN, listening to people rate the state of culture/race relations in the US; "I would give it a B+." Terrorism is really just a failure to communicate with other cultures. An attempt to have an objective look at their traditions and beliefs, perhaps.