Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic

People can handle accidental, isolated deaths. Yes, someone dies, but there is no malicious force that caused it.

People can handle mass-death less easily, even when it's accidental (or not intentional). But things like the sinking of the Titantic, air disasters, bus accidents, and similar still disproportionately capture attention.

People cannot accept someone else who is out to kill them intentionally because of hatred or a belief system. Yes, foreign policy, resources, economics, geopolitics, and myriad other nuances are involved here, but it really is that simple at its core.

The reason there ever was a "war on terror" isn't to "funnel money to corporate buddies" ? it's because, to be blunt, we don't put up with that shit, even if our response is imperfect ? not to mention that Europe and the West has enjoyed US defense-by-proxy for over a half-century. The fact that war is an economic driver is incidental (even if it can be argued to be important in its own way). But make no mistake: when US policy makers of any political stripe make the decision to go to war, the thinking isn't, "Hey, this can line the pockets of my corporate buddies!! Lulz!"

But I know that you and many other readers here are cynical (and ignorant) enough to actually twist a story about Pakistan and Islam into, yet again in true topsy-turvy bizarro-world style, how the US is evil. (Same thing happened with the recent Syria Wikileaks story [slashdot.org].) It might be amusing if it weren't so predictable, pathetic, and shameful.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/q2bKEZR4FME/nobel-laureate-wiped-from-pakistans-textbooks-as-heretic

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