Tuesday, March 14, 2006


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Late last night, while clicking from channel to channel as I usually do, I saw a few minutes of a TV show that was some kind of performance competition for kids. On its stage was a little boy who looked no more than 6 or 8. He had a giant black cowboy hat on top of his little face and played a giant guitar with his tiny little hands. His hero was probably someone like Alan Jackson or Tim McGraw. Watching this boy, made me think about how incredibly important it is for children (especially male children) to have heroes to emulate, and how terrorists are created by there being no one else but other terrorists, to hero-worship in those backward, medieval, Arab nations that continue to exist as if it were still the fourteenth century.

Such countries are a breeding ground for evil. Ruled by the blaring, oppressive call to prayer, 5 times each day, and by the thousands of crazed preachers who teach only hatred and the need to murder, such nations are like gigantic prison systems that destroy the creative spirit of their children.

These children have no role models. They experience no excellence. There's no music, no art, no writing except for heavily-censored propaganda, no inventors, no builders, and no heroes other than the terrorist exploders of bombs that kill the hated "infidel".

Without any role models of excellence, without a vision of what courage really is, and without experiencing the joy of achievement and mastery, a child will wither like a tree that's planted in a place where water never flows to its roots and sunshine never nourishes its leaves.

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