>But if all you can see is your own "wounds" and cannot understand what I am getting at, then good luck to you.

Bah. Look, I understand there are problems elsewhere. Feeding and educating the entire world is something that has racked my brains for years. Its been my holy grail. Of course you wouldn't know that because we've nevewr talked about it, yet you still attack anyways.

Regardless, those are there problems, and I think we should do what we can to help, but that does not mean we shoudl ignore our own problems. Do you think a public reaction to stuff like this should be put on hold until world hunger is solved?

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0814-05.htm
Ashcroft's plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants.
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This week, the government refused to comply with a federal judge who ordered that he be given the underlying evidence justifying Hamdi's treatment. The Justice Department has insisted that the judge must simply accept its declaration and cannot interfere with the president's absolute authority in "a time of war."

Or how about this:

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0828-06.htm

You think that we should ignore the fact that our president is trying to wage a war that no citizens want, that could throw the entire world in to whack, just because we havent' figure out how to get enough chicken sandwhiches to Zimbabwe?

I understand your point. Now you have to understand mine. There are problems everywhere in the world. We cannot afford to loose ground while we make some up.