A very touching and insightful article from VICE NEWS as of November 19, 2015:
Riches, glory, and a place to belong.
Aren't these the basics of Maslow's pyramid of needs - apart from riches, but when you are so deprived of anything, even citizenship of the country you are born in, don't sound riches and glory just perfect?
The article is very touching, in many ways. And well worth reading to get an understanding of contexts. And another proof of burnt soil for generations the allied powers have left behind in the Middle East and elsewhere.
In the end - it is indeed Youth Bulge, a social effect the UN knew about for decades, simply failing to act in time and in appropriate ways but to the contrary was sponsoring the wrong actions. Lack of perspective is what the whole planet has left over after the industrial age and despite we live 500 years past medieval times and despite all insight we should have gained meanwhile.
Not learned anything?
Sometimes I get the feeling that people were wiser 10.000 years before this time.
We need some cultural evolution of an in-depth kind.
LoVe,
Lyn
Inside the $100 Million Scheme to Send the Middle East's Most Unwanted People to Africa
"For Kuwait's disaffected youth — bedoun and full citizens alike — groups like al Qaeda and IS have increasing appeal, al-Fadhli said, and Al Taimam is being targeted by recruiters for jihadist groups abroad that promise riches, glory, and a place to belong. In September, a Kuwaiti court sentenced seven men to death for their part in the bombing of a Shia mosque in Kuwait City by the local wing of IS. Among their number was Abdulrahman Sabah Saud, a Kuwaiti bedoun who had confessed to driving the bomber to the mosque. Several Kuwaiti bedoun interviewed for this story told VICE News that recruiters for both al Qaeda and IS have come to view Al Taimam as a rich recruiting ground."
Aren't these the basics of Maslow's pyramid of needs - apart from riches, but when you are so deprived of anything, even citizenship of the country you are born in, don't sound riches and glory just perfect?
The article is very touching, in many ways. And well worth reading to get an understanding of contexts. And another proof of burnt soil for generations the allied powers have left behind in the Middle East and elsewhere.
In the end - it is indeed Youth Bulge, a social effect the UN knew about for decades, simply failing to act in time and in appropriate ways but to the contrary was sponsoring the wrong actions. Lack of perspective is what the whole planet has left over after the industrial age and despite we live 500 years past medieval times and despite all insight we should have gained meanwhile.
Not learned anything?
Sometimes I get the feeling that people were wiser 10.000 years before this time.
We need some cultural evolution of an in-depth kind.
LoVe,
Lyn
