I had only inklings of the efforts of the U.N. but their culmination seem to be parallel to my beliefs that can best be represented by an Escher world. First there is the impression that there is a reality that is represented in mainstream media, not just a perspective. Then there is the perspective that the writer takes, on Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations I don't know if his interpretation or my own of Huntington is wrong, but I prefer to have a different perspective than his take from it. I don't believe Huntington is saying only what Heitner sees him as saying, or I am choosing to pick only what I believe of it, and tweaking the rest.
No matter, maybe. Setting aside the reaction that some perspectives will have to Al Jazeera International having a perspective that is not theirs, the efforts and results that we have experienced deserve the approach that Spain, Italy and France are taking. It will have it's own reaction, which should not be part of the equation, if some persist in their own reality which does not recognize perspectives at all.
If some think this is just philosophical falderal, then they should be reminded what maybe they know, that the be all and end all has been, the Bush philosophy.
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