Originally there was a list of 5 countries that were said to be targets for terrorist attacks. Four of them have already been hit: United States, Australia, Spain and the United Kingdom. There's only one country left. Three guesses which country it is.
Toronto Life: July 2005 Archives
Maybe it's because I don't randomly hate people just for living that I fail to grasp the logic behind terrorist attacks. Maybe it's because terrorists do randomly hate people for living that terrorist organizations fail to see that attacks like this just push more and more people towards agreeing with Ann Coulter when she makes statements about invading countries, killing their leaders, and converting them all to Christianity.
This is going to be short, because I don't feel like getting into the subject into extreme detail. However, if anyone looked at the cover of the Sunday Toronto Star they'd notice that it was the Live 8 edition and that the cover story was entitled "Will it help her?" with a large picture of a young girl working in a field in Niger, two years into a famine. It was followed by an article that gave the answer: No.
No, Live 8 won't help the girl in Niger, or any of the other children dying everyday in Africa because of poverty. First: Africa is big. You can't find a blanket solution for a whole continent. Second: Widely acknowledged, most of Africa is corrupt. In most cases the governments pilfer the aid money anyways. Why send them more money when it's not even going to make it to that dying child that the idiots running Live 8 told you to care about. A much more logical campaign would have been to call for more African government accountability, and a fairer trade from the Western nations. But they didn't do that, because that's not what Live 8 was about.
No, Live 8 was about making the West feel good.
