thoughts on a video I won’t even post

A bit earlier today I watched video of the inside of a morgue in Benghazi– one dead young person after another, mostly looking 18-25 years old.

It occurred to me that most of these people were mere children at the time of 9/11, previously the most recent moment when our view of Arab culture was radically reframed. But it’s crying out for another and more justified reframing right now. The Arab world, under our radar, has produced a generation of heroes. Most of us have never done anything remotely as heroic as march against Gaddafi in Benghazi, with helicopters and snipers firing even at the funerals.

Incidentally, on a related video a doctor was explaining how they can determine that snipers are involved: lots of bodies where the entrance wounds are much higher than the exit wounds, proof of gunshots from an elevated position.