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How Did We Degenerate to Such a Terrible Extent?


(Beirut Daily Star) - The UN staff who were killed and injured included some of the finest, most dedicated international civil servants anywhere in the world; they also comprise a large contingent of scrupulously honest and diligent Arab and other Middle Eastern specialists. Killing them is an act so degenerate that it defies any rational explanation. How could the societies of the Middle East have deteriorated politically and morally to such a degree that this sort of attack has become routine? The madness of a few among us who would do such deeds as the Baghdad bombing is the tip of an iceberg that permeates the wider circles of our cultures and countries.
2003-08-22 00:00:00
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