Comments: I had the idea that narrative in crisis goes through 3 phases:
From the same Belmont Club article, two ultimate STFU's to all the guilty bystanders [me included]:
'Or news that a Kurdish mother of 2 carried out a suicide attack on ISIS rather than surrender.
Then there's its almost companion piece about Jordan Matson, an American who "worked as a delivery driver for a food service company for six months to save enough money" to join the Kurds to fight ISIS. Matson says:
"I couldn't just sit and watch Christians being slaughtered anymore," he said in an interview with USA TODAY. "I got sick of giving online sympathy. Five minutes of lip service does nothing. These people are fighting for their homes, for everything they have."
Posted by Stug Guts at October 20, 2014 10:53 AM