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Despite all our words and pious hand-wringing to the contrary, we have institutionalized violence as an acceptable instrument of policy. Indeed, it has become so common that we cannot recognize it in ourselves and thus do not demand its rejections in our nation.
We insulate our minds, our ears, our eyes so that we will not have to be aware of the levels of daily violence. We do not see the homeless on the street; we cluck our tongues at people who pass us by mumbling to themselves; we turn away from the parent hitting the child; we know nothing about the conditions of life in our prisons; we ignore the hopelessness in the inner city or the very back roads of the country. This ignorance becomes institutionalized; we do nothing to alter the institution. It escalates to national policy.
A few short years ago, Noriega was our staunch ally in Central America — indeed, on our payroll; his military trained by our military. Less than a week before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, our government was sending arms and electronics to Hussein. We, the United States, in the name of economic stability, are the greatest supplier of arms in the world. What kind of thinking is this?
NOL PUTNAM
Flint Hill
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