The Human Torch (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} hunterxtc) wrote in pinkville, |
This whole Ariel Sharon thing is intriguing to me... I always he was this war monger, and yet as he lays dying, he's suddenly this martyr of the Israeli people. Of course to me, the whole Middle Eastern situation is about people's fear of the unknown, and thus they have to rely on religion to get them through the day, and since they have differing religions they have to kill each other. Sharon, like most people in the region, bought into this thought process, and he prospered by it, changing with the winds... and when he dies, there will be a big hoopla... while as you so adroitly point out, the My Lai hero is nothing but an afterthought.
