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05 Dec 2008 01:24 pm
The Real Lesson Of Bombay
Junah Grunstein:
My own first reaction, in discussing the attacks with a friend, was that if they resulted in a nuclear exchange in South Asia, ten guys would have essentially changed the course of human history ...
Through a convergence of terrorists' savvy with the structural
changes in the mediasphere, an enormously disproportionate impact can
be brought to bear by applying what really amounts to minute pressure
to geopolitical faultlines. To give an idea, based on these World Bank
automobile statistics, more people died of car accidents in India on
the day of the attacks than in the attacks themselves. But we are now
seriously and soberly considering the possibility of a worst-case
scenario that involves nuclear war. [...]
I, for one, am tired of how much power is being handed over to so few people with so little imagination.
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