BBC Special

Right now there's a panel discussion on BBC discussing the happenings of my country. Here's a summary...not a personal opinion, a summary:

***The UN is secretly controlled by the US
***The US is partnering with Israel to take over the Arab world
***2 million people are making it all up
***Oh wait...forgot that there aren't 2 million people displaced, just a few hundred thousand
***The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a biased committee
***Any ICC reports filed on war crimes are completely false accusations
***Really any media reports are all lies
***To be a journalist you have to be a liar
***Western countries aren't giving enough aid money
***However, money and verbal encouragement are all that is needed
***How can a government kill it's own people? (rhetorical question)
***Every 1 minute of media time focused on the Sandbox is 2 minutes of media time that are not focused on Iraq (not sure about the math on that one)
***The US also controls the media and the Sandbox has no chance

I really enjoy watching stuff like this. While I don't find the actual situation funny at all I do get a kick out of debates like this. No resolution can come of it. A bunch of men just sit around and 'politely raise their voices' at each other, throwing around ridiculous accusations and getting angry. I must admit that my view is a little partial, but still, on these things no one proves a point and someone always ends up looking like an idiot.

Random story...today I was in the village. My friend has this huge scar from her wrist to above her elbow and I asked her what happened. She told me she used to live in a village in the mountains. One morning she woke up to gunfire and the village was surrounded by men riding camels and shooting anyone and everything that moved. Mass chaos erupted and people scattered. She grabbed her babies and ran. Her grandmother was sitting at the fire making tea...she was old and couldn't move fast and Hailey saw the men on the camels shoot her grandmother. She saw women accidentally drop their babies but they couldn't stop to pick them up or they would be killed...or worse. They had no choice but to run for their lives.

That's a loose translation...and from the look on her face I'm gonna say that she is not one of the 2 million people making it all up.