First of all I was looking at the Dow not the QQQ. The QQQ is mainly tech stocks.
Secondly, I make that statement because of your original rhetoric--I have travelled--I have seen stinking poverty in other countries, like nothing anybody who posts on this board has ever known. The situation was so much more complex and involved than trying to down our financial markets. I am an American but as someone posted on one of these boards, did ANY of us give a crap when our sanctions killed half a million Iraqi kids? I'm quoting from one of many horrified protests at the time that America stop:
They are the most brutal form of war because they punish an entire population, targeting children, the future, most of all. Sanctions are a weapon of mass destruction. From 1990, when sanctions were imposed on Iraq until 1995, half a million children under the age of five died of malnutrition and preventable diseases. Sanctions impose artificial famine. A third of Iraq's surviving children today have stunted growth and nutritional deficiencies that will deform their shortened lives
Albright said, I think it is necessary.
I was devastated, appalled, grief stricken at what happened to the WTC & the city I live in. But we have no right to be morally appalled--we have created much worse situations to innocent human beings, children, in other countries.
When I don't see people discussing both sides of the issue and looking at the complexity of our involvement, it really irritates me.
Maybe we will go into an obvious recession (we were headed for one anyway). There are many factors involved in that. Hedge funds were shorting yesterday. But you can't separate out capitalism from capitalism. |
