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Colo. woman who was sentenced to 4 yrs for ISIS connection
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 646544" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>With the beheadings, I doubt even our worse difficult children will be interested. In fact, I'd suspect most of them don't know much about what ISIS is. Not like Americans, and the youth especially, know or care what is going on in other's back yards unless it concerns our own. The overriding majority of young people, even the academically bright ones, haven't been politically engaged since the 60s and that was only because THEY were under the threat of being drafted. THEY, THEY, ME, I. We are Americans. We don't look too far, for the good or the bad.</p><p></p><p>The "Americans are indifferent" label is in my opinion very true. In this case, I'm glad. We don't need deranged Americans running off to help terrorists. Few of American ancestry have. I just remember the guy from California and feeling sorry for his parents.</p><p></p><p>To emphasize our degree of "Me-ness" I had been asked quite a few times before my 2nd husband and I adopted Jumper and Sonic why we adopted overseas when "There are children HERE who need homes." It was asked boldly, with criticism, and judgment. (The answer was that most available young children in the U.S. are black or biracial and first husband was not on board with that, even though I begged him). I never did explain to anybody though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 646544, member: 1550"] With the beheadings, I doubt even our worse difficult children will be interested. In fact, I'd suspect most of them don't know much about what ISIS is. Not like Americans, and the youth especially, know or care what is going on in other's back yards unless it concerns our own. The overriding majority of young people, even the academically bright ones, haven't been politically engaged since the 60s and that was only because THEY were under the threat of being drafted. THEY, THEY, ME, I. We are Americans. We don't look too far, for the good or the bad. The "Americans are indifferent" label is in my opinion very true. In this case, I'm glad. We don't need deranged Americans running off to help terrorists. Few of American ancestry have. I just remember the guy from California and feeling sorry for his parents. To emphasize our degree of "Me-ness" I had been asked quite a few times before my 2nd husband and I adopted Jumper and Sonic why we adopted overseas when "There are children HERE who need homes." It was asked boldly, with criticism, and judgment. (The answer was that most available young children in the U.S. are black or biracial and first husband was not on board with that, even though I begged him). I never did explain to anybody though. [/QUOTE]
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