Two New Jersey men, Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, tried to fly out of New York's Kennedy Airport in hopes of getting terror training in Somalia. They were arrested Saturday June 5th before they could board separate flights to Egypt and then continue on to Somalia. Mohamed and Carlos had no known connections to established terrorist groups, however. They had traveled to Jordan three years ago and tried to get into Iraq, only to be rejected by jihadists because Americans are not trusted as terrorist in the Middle East. That is, frankly, a social commentary if you can remember the many years the United States actively recruited and trained fundamentalist from the Arab world. We trained terrorists abroad, and in Georgia in the School of Americas which was disbanded during President Bush’s first term of office.
How or when will Americans come to grip our obvious contradictions in our hands, and minds? Every year we graduate millions of criminals from high schools alongside law abiding children into the mainstream without some basic things in place: financial education, a deep understanding of law, a sense of their historical place in the world, a deep understanding of the world, and the play between action and belief on the international stage, and a connection with fundamental truths basic to being a world power, and a few other things required of individuals of a global power. It is disturbing to listen to otherwise good-hearted Americans speaking in contradictory codes about people who act out the sum of our foreign policies, and the core structure of our national belief system.
When our young men imitate our government and decide to support a Jihad against their country our collective inability to trace and connect this to our government’s traditional relationship with terror and terrorists should trouble us. Does it? If it does we are not troubled enough to cease from pretending our children are not imitating the spirit of our duplicity. If these two would be Jihadists understand and know how we employed terror throughout the centuries against scores of nations it isn’t a far leap for them to embrace a jihad against their own country. Young people deeply resent adults telling them one thing, as if they are the fount of wisdom and knowing, and practicing another. Example: adults who chide children for sexual promiscuity, and themselves have not control or deep understanding of their own sexual energy. It is the same in the political, and international arena.
If we invade a country (Iraq) and call it a fight for American freedom, and occupy another country under the pretense of looking for our former ally, Ben Laden, knowing our relationship with him and Saudi Arabia breeches agreements, and call our soldiers out of their name saying they are fighting for our freedom then how far away are these young would be jihadist from our practice of obscuring the truth to fit a cause? These are my thoughts, and how I express them. I am Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100606/ap_on_re_us/us_terrorism_arrests
"My soul cannot rest until I shed blood," Alessa said, according to court documents. "I wanna, like, be the world's known terrorist." This sounds like so many Americans on any given day. -Dawn Wolf
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