Warbler said:
CP3S said:
Warbler said:
CP3S said:
I work with kids in these age ranges. None of them talk about Al Qaeda or 9/11. A lot don't even really remember much of the events. When the Boston Marathon bombing happened, the first thing they thought of wasn't "OMG! Islamic terrorists!" It was, "Crap, another psycho!"
but I bet they still consider Al Qaeda a threat.
And I bet most of the ones I work with have no idea what Al Qaeda is.
if so, the people you work with are incredibly ignorant and must live under huge boulders.
I'm talking about the kids that I work with, not my coworkers. I'm just making the point that to this younger generation it is a piece of history, rather than a current event that greatly impacted their lives.
The Gulf War happened when I was a kid, and I have to admit that I really knew nothing of what it was about at the time. Is it really so unusual for kids 12 and under to be ignorant of this stuff?
CP3S said:
I actually had an eleven year old say to me once, "I forget, which one was it that attacked us on 9/11, Iran or Iraq?" When I told him neither of them, he looked very confused and asked for more details about the wars. Turns out, it is much more confusing trying to explain this stuff to a person who wasn't there for it than I would have guessed it would be.
that 11 year old needs an education, real bad.
Well, actually I need education real bad, or to get more sleep, or to read what I post before I post it. He asked about Afghanistan and Iraq, not Iran and Iraq. From there, same point as above.
CP3S said:
No, Warb, kids that age don't know much about Al Qaeda. And as time passes, they'll know and care even less about them.
I don't believe you. May I remind you, some of today's kids lost their mothers and/or fathers on 911.
You don't need to remind me of that, and of course those ones would be well informed on the subject. But taking the entire percentage of the US population, a very, very small number of kids lost parents from 9/11. I feel like you are skirting around the point being made, like you so often do.
CP3S said:
The nation has moved on. We haven't forgotten, but we are over it.
you sure you know your own nation all that well?
Do you? I don't watch the news (though I do keep up with what is going on), so I am out of touch as far as the words of pundits and anchors, but I do get out a lot and converse with a lot of people. Maybe I don't know my nation that well, it is hard to say.
CP3S said:
Ten year olds living in Iran and Iraq on the other hand... It is going to be a while before all they were exposed to and suffered fades away.
1. what does Iran have do with this. We have done nothing yet in Iran, and certainly did nothing in Iran in response to 911.
2. you speak of the stuff 10 year olds wre exposed to in Iraq, just what kind of stuff would they be exposed to in their lifetimes had we left Saddam in power?
Dammit. I meant Iraq and Afghanistan. I was exhausted and under the influence while writing that last post.
I don't know what they would have experienced under Saddam, but they wouldn't have experienced foreign forces invading their country or have been exposed to war and carnage in their own backyards. I'm not convinced it is all that much better now that Saddam is gone, and it certainly cost a lot of lives to take him down, far more than 3,000, plenty of which were as innocent at the 3,000 that died from the attacks on NY in 2001.