http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/07/01/links-for-2008-07-01/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/07/01/links-for-2008-07-01/comment-page-1/#comment-55154 Will Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:07:38 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/07/01/links-for-2008-07-01/#comment-55154 I thought it was a good overall motivational presentation, but do share similar concerns. One thing that struck me was the mass applaus when the statement was made on the video that we as a society should have done something to stop the atrocities of Sierra Leone. As a veteran of the Iraq war, I constantly hear we should leave and shouldn't have gone in to begin with. Having been there and seen the fruits of the Saddam regime, if we hadn't done something a similar statement could have easily been made. (Sorry, not trying to get political, this was just a chord that struck me.) I thought it was a good overall motivational presentation, but do share similar concerns. One thing that struck me was the mass applaus when the statement was made on the video that we as a society should have done something to stop the atrocities of Sierra Leone. As a veteran of the Iraq war, I constantly hear we should leave and shouldn’t have gone in to begin with. Having been there and seen the fruits of the Saddam regime, if we hadn’t done something a similar statement could have easily been made. (Sorry, not trying to get political, this was just a chord that struck me.)

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