[Peace-discuss] an obsession the world doesn't share

[Lisa Chason]

There is a very interesting story in the Sunday NYT Week in Review
section from Dec 5, page 1, titled "An Obsession the World Doesn't
Share." Its point is that the war on terror, unlike the cold war, is not
universally seen as the pivotal global struggle of the age. "Rather, it
is often portrayed abroad as a distraction from more critical issues --
as an American attempte to impose a bellicose culture, driven by the
cultivation of fear, on a world still taken with the notion that the
cold war's end and technology's advance have open unprecedented
possibiliites for dialogue and peace...For all of President Bush's
attempts to frame the current conflict against Islamic terrorism as one
of equally epochal and all-envelping proportions, it is now clear that
the world has resisted such a single, over-arching framework." The
constant details of overt militarization are not the daily diet in other
countries. 
 
If someone is able to post this story to the list I'd really appreciate
it.
 
Lisa
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