Both the mother and the step-father were antiWar protestors.
And all the people that watched the living skeleton, buy his bus ticket, wait in the bus station, the bus driver that took his ticket, the fellow passengers, the hundreds of people that walked by this teen...neo-conservatives.
There are roughly 28,000 homicides in the US every year; another near equal amount of infant mortalities; an estimated 10,000 homeless in San Francisco. Shelters in NYC for 35,000 homeless were overwhelmed this past winter. Care to tell me how the send $1 and a letter to an Afghan child is still going? How many countries cared about terrorism when the Japanese were gassed in the subway some ten years ago? I couldn't begin to count the number of times conservatives said "we can't police the world" or "solve world poverty" during the famines in Somalia or the violence in Rwanda. And the liberals caring for Somalia and Rwanda was the depth and breadth of about 50 nonoseconds. How many people even know the names of countries where there are famines existing today. They might know the names of the characters on Friends, but they don't know where the famines are. The human rights abuses are just as prevalent in Afghanistan today as they were under the Taliban. The Taliban are still there, instead of occupying government offices, they are in the villages. The only difference is that Karzai is pro-western. Thousands of years we've had to get it "right". Humanity has failed.
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