Politics: Same Planet... Different World

Yesterday, I posted a link to a story about a girl who was "married" off at the age of nine by her family to a middle-aged ex-Taliban pervert who abused her mercilessly... yet he was supported and defended by the Islamic-fundamentalist "Supreme Court".

In the U.S., he would have been sent to prison and introduced to some very large, mean, gentlemen who would have "instructed" him on the error of his ways.

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This planet is home to different worlds... different realities... than most of us in America can accept as rational... yet their existence and continuation confront our senses and sensibilities daily:

• In Iraq and Palestine, the territorial imperative is in full play.
• In India, Brazil, Europe, Africa and elsewhere, slavery ... labor and sexual... continues unabated.
• Dictators rule their countries more wickedly than foreign occupiers and threaten the world with nuclear insanity.

The list seems endless... and may well be. Meanwhile, we concern ourselves with whether or not the President has a "mandate" or not.

Perhaps it is time for us to remember that our world is really not that bad... given the other worlds we might live in.