Comments on All Things CNN: Scream Bloody Murder

The problem with teachers today is that none of th...

2008-12-20T19:49:00.000-05:00

The problem with teachers today is that none of them teach kids about critical thinking or media criticism, preferring to let the media "teach" their liberal anti-US agenda to the kids. Now THAT's a tragedy. I'll scream bloody hell over that.

I teach a semester class about genocide in a high ...

2008-12-14T19:01:00.000-05:00

I teach a semester class about genocide in a high school and cover much of what this documentary. I thought it was inspirational. Does nayone know where I can get a copy? I would be more than willing to pay for it. It would make a great addition to my curriculum

What Igor is saying is overexerted. Izetbegovic co...

2008-12-13T02:44:00.000-05:00

What Igor is saying is overexerted. Izetbegovic could never have nor was ever attempting to make any kind of Iran style government or enforce anything of the kind in BiH. He was and the people were for a secular power sharing venture. Anything else would have been brainless in a country that is mixed. Churches and Mosques were burned down, many times, but not by Izetbegovic, his commander in chief of the armed forces was an Orthodox Bosnian, and another supporter in Hercegovina was catholic and had been assasinated by nationalist Catholic forces. It is ridicule to over exert the position of the Muslims in 1992. They were undermanned overpowered and without most heavy weaponry, the Mid-East links are all hype, what hapenned is that the UN did not allow "any" of the 3 to buy weaopons. Germany supplied Croatia, and Serbia and Serbian Bosnians stole Croatia and BiH's supply before the war started, then ressuplied by Russia. Several countries under the guidance of the US sold weaopons finally to the BiH goverment and half of them were actually taken by Croatia (the heavy ones that is) as the Bosnian held territories were completely landlocked and surrounded. The few thousand Muhajadeen that came through were allowed in by Croatia and were checked by the US intelligence, after all the CIA used them before why not think to use them again.
The US could not involve directly thus they used proxies. Igor everyone suffered but misinformation should not become you due to that.

It is time for the "people of this world" to colle...

2008-12-08T00:19:00.000-05:00

It is time for the "people of this world" to collectively "SCREAM BLOODY MURDER"! against anyone (individual or government) which has the audacity to take a human life. I believe the way to accomplish respect for the sanctity of each and every human life as divine and holy is to ask the United Natiions to endorse the United Peace Pledge:

We are members of this world. Are we not all members of the same family - homo sapiens? Is our family able to survive another World War? We do not think so. Therefore, it makes sense to us not to have any war, which may lead into a world war.

Let us all on our beautiful Planet Earth sign petitions and make public pledges that we each, as sovereign individuals, will not ever join an army. We, as sovereign individuals, refuse to be ordered to kill. Each and every decision we will make individually as sovereign members of Planet Earth. We therefore pledge:
"We are Peace Prophets.
We will never kill a brother or sister Human Being.
We believe only the Creator of that Human Life
has the right to end that Life."

Sincerely,
Mary Hath Spokane,
Author of the U.N. Peace Pledge

I watched Scream Bloody Murder and thought it woul...

2008-12-07T18:29:00.000-05:00

I watched Scream Bloody Murder and thought it would have been an excellent documentary if they didn't spend so much time blaming the USA for everything: for not responding, for not responding fast enough; for being unable to stop the genocide. I almost got the feeling that CNN/Amanpour was directly fingering the US as the *source* of these genocide problems which is completely outrageous. According to them, the USA is the only one responsible for these heinous crimes and are to blame when things aren't fixed in a snap. The reporting could not have been more biased or offensive. The USA does more than its share of trying to help these people and countries but we cannot fix everybody's problems. Then again, the world doesn't reallty want the USA to police them anyway, right? Damned if we do, damned if we don't.

Next time, please tell Ms. Amanpour to cut down on the anti-American rhetoric. She is a Britsh national, why doesn't she criticize her home country as much as she does the US, the country that made her rich and famous?

It is sad that we will never really know or unders...

2008-12-05T21:48:00.000-05:00

It is sad that we will never really know or understand the whole picture of the atrocities that occurred in the countries Ms. Amanpour tried to summarize in the two hour time frame she was given to work with. We cannot know here in the States what happened on the ground in those lands. People who were there can speak out; we may not like the awful truth of the events, but we are morally bound to face it and take steps to stop genocide from occurring again.
Many were involved and many are to blame for the outcome, many have yet to have their feet held to the fire for their parts in past and present conflicts.
Give CNN and one of the most respected journalists in the world a little credit for shining a light on this shameful and disgusting thing that humans have inflicted upon each other. It says too much about how little the human race has come in our evolution that this kind of hate and ignorance still works in the world.
Igor, I am sorry you had to suffer this trauma and pain. Don't think for a minute that you and your people were not thought about and prayed for during your time of horror. I hope that you and your loved ones will be able to find some kind of healing.

Fair and balanced? Hardly! Ms. Amanpour made it so...

2008-12-05T01:33:00.000-05:00

Fair and balanced? Hardly! Ms. Amanpour made it sound as if Sarajevo was made up entirely of Muslims. She also made it sound as if it was only the Muslims that were victims of torture and mutilation. What she doesn't mention was that Muslims were far from unarmed, and the Serbs did nothing to the Muslims that was not done to Serb villages as well. The conflict was a bloody struggle between failed governments, and there were victims on both sides. My family was Orthodox-Catholic by faith, and we were in Sarajevo during the whole conflict. Many of our friends died, both Muslim and Serb, and I can tell you that, without a doubt, grenades cannot tell the difference. Ms. Amanpour, where is the part about where Alia Izetbegovich, the Bosnian president at the time, decided that he wanted to make a country with a strictly Islamic regime, where Christian churches would be outlawed and their freedoms curtailed? Where is the part about the Middle East (Iran and Saudi Arabia) supplying weapons to Muslims to slaughter rural villages of Serbs and Croats? I would commend you for your coverage of the genocide in Bosnia, but I cannot understand why you would chose to portray it from a Muslim point of view when both sides were equally at fault. That is not an example of professional journalism, and you should try to make amends for these catastrophic mistakes.