Why we need to keep up with current events…
April 19th, 2009
William Jelani Cobb has written a concise piece,
“Commentary: A lesson of Somali pirate attacks” (posted at CNN.com), that helps express the need to get a thorough understanding of the ‘why’ behind problems before trying to come up with solutions to them. We can definitely come up with more comprehensive, effective, and humane solutions to these types of problems if we use our brains. We need to keep up with current events, and we need to understand the history that puts these events into context; otherwise, our opinions aren’t worth a whole lot.