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...People react differently when they are told and shown that they have a power over their own lives," Pierce said...
...campaign includes attacks on black municipal councilors and black policemen -- part of apartheid's crumbling system -- that encourage the perpetuation of black-against-black violence. In 1990 there were more than 400 recorded attacks on black councilors and policemen, resulting in at least 25 deaths. How will the young react when black politicians and police are representing a black government...
Technology is not fail-safe. Sooner or later a hospital, a school or an apartment block will be reduced to flesh and rubble by an errant U.S. bombing mission. How will I and the nation react to pictures of, say, an Iraqi woman, her clothes on fire, running, stumbling, screaming at the injustice of her fate? Intellectually, I will accept responsibility, for the saturation bombing of Iraq is part of a wrenching decision that my country made openly and democratically with my full complicity. But can I steel my emotions? A ground war in Kuwait will only be worse...
Virtually all Arabs feel a kind of residual kinship with Saddam because of ! their common cultural ties. But they react to him in markedly different ways. In their profound and continuing frustration, many of the Palestinians are instinctively attracted to Saddam. That seems odd in at least one way: the Palestinians might be expected to sympathize more with the Kuwaitis, as Arabs displaced from their homeland. Instead, most identify with Saddam's aggressions and his determination to get even with Israel...
...truth is, we don't know why Saddam has chosen to react in the way he has," Fitzwater said...