rherr said:
But when the start showing there political views on stage or in the media it bothers me. I don't want War at all but somtimes you have to take military action and somtimes innocent (civillian lives are lost. The US lost over 3,000 civillians on Sept. 11 2001. We need to stop terrorism. These entertainers don't look at the big picture at all the take a stance so the can get their faces in the paper and hopfully sell more tickets. The big picture is the government only lets you know what they want you to know. Because if they actually told us what was really going on the world would go nuts (go back to the Cuban missle crisis). Like I said. In times like these you have to back your leaders and let them be leaders.
Okay, a few points:
1) I find it interesting that people don't mind loss of civilian life when it doesn't affect
them.
2) I find it increasingly odd that people are tying this Iraq initiative to the war on terror. Saddam Hussein is NOT a Muslim fundamentalist, nor is he religious at all. Bin Laden, in fact, recently called him an infidel on a recent tape. If anything, Al Quada would want to take Saddam out themselves. But if America does it, Bin Ladden would be ecstatic, as two birds with one stone would be killed: ONE, Saddam the infidel would be disposed of and TWO, you would have all the Muslim extremists in the world angry with the US for loss of civilian Muslim life. Bin Laden is rubbing his hands as I type, no doubt.
3) If an entertainer is well educated on a political topic (as Bono I'm sure is), why shouldn't they speak their mind? If it's okay for some opinionated, biased journalist on CNN to speak his mind, why not for an educated entertainer? Just because he entertains for a living, that doesn't devalidate what he has to say. That sounds more like discrimination to me.
4) Do you really, honestly believe that Bono is standing up for what he believes in because he wants to sell more tickets? Are you serious??? If anything, he would be losing sales by taking such a stance! To come out and say something like that is a very bad business move, and that just shows you what conviction the man has. Secondly, do you really think Bono needs to get his "face in the paper" any more than it already has been the past few months? I hardly think Bono would try and get even more publicity. He's been publicised to death as it is -- from all the work he's been dedicating to debt relief to all the awards and honours he's been receiving for his efforts.
So come on!! Dig a little deeper next time! You have every right to your opinion, but in my opinion, there is more thought needed here.
BTW -- if it bothers you so much when entertainers show their political views on stage, how did you ever manage to suffer through a U2 concert? You must have really hated the WAR era!