Posted on Jul 29, 2015
Do you think the world is becoming immune to the suffering caused by escalating global security threats?
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The top U.S. military official warned Tuesday that the world risks becoming immune to the suffering caused by escalating global security threats.
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it would be "a historical shame" if the world doesn't realize it is reaching a point where it becomes insensitive to the magnitude of the problems caused by international crises.
"The world is at genuine risk of becoming immune to suffering, and if that happens I don't know where it stops," Dempsey told several dozen ambassadors and military attaches at an event sponsored by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
He urged world leaders and governments to "shake ourselves back into the reality that we can do something about it."
"In my 41 years of military service, I've never witnessed such significant shifts in the international security environment as we are seeing all around us today," he said. "The complex array of threats and, let's call it geopolitical jockeying, requires all of us to contend with an unpredictable landscape."
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Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it would be "a historical shame" if the world doesn't realize it is reaching a point where it becomes insensitive to the magnitude of the problems caused by international crises.
"The world is at genuine risk of becoming immune to suffering, and if that happens I don't know where it stops," Dempsey told several dozen ambassadors and military attaches at an event sponsored by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
He urged world leaders and governments to "shake ourselves back into the reality that we can do something about it."
"In my 41 years of military service, I've never witnessed such significant shifts in the international security environment as we are seeing all around us today," he said. "The complex array of threats and, let's call it geopolitical jockeying, requires all of us to contend with an unpredictable landscape."
Read more at ...
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2015/07/28/us-military-chief-world-risks-becoming-immune-to-crises/30793993/
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Nobody has really cared about poverty in Asia, Africa, and S America. But the irony is we have disrupted much of the ME.
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I agree that we are becoming desensitized to suffering, whether it is from suffering we have witnessed, to being exposed to violent scenes on t.v., to gory movies. We see it on the news as we sit and watch t.v. in the morning as we eat breakfast. We have become too deeply immersed in violence from fictional to newsworthy to the point of it being something that is no longer shocking.
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Maj Mike Sciales
Too much information coming in. The media used to "set the agenda" (according to my professor in 1982) and tell the American people what they needed to know. We don't have that guidance anymore. We have virtually unlimited middlemen. We can hear directly from leaders or anybody else. Miley Cyrus can whistle up her crew, so can Aston Kutcher. The Pope says exactly what he is thinking. We know that at any moment there are at least 100 low intesity conflicts going on somewhere. We don't really know who they are, we have general terms. ISIS is the "enemy de jour" but now the Russians are coming on. We forget about Kony and his Lord's Liberation Army snatching up 200 or was it 300 girls, making them sex slaves. That sort of faded. We know there was some complaint the Palestinians had about Israel, but we aren't clear on the specifics. We have plenty of violence at home, but it's hard to say exactly where. Seems like all over. We know there is a problem with the police and a lot of black folks getting dead, but really, wasn't that all fixed by Ferguson? There was that recent flag debate. I'm being facetious of course, but we are inured to it all and that's just sort of the way it is now.
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It is birth pain ... it will come stronger and faster, and the world won't even know it when it "exploded" :)
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