Your post yesterday suggested a connection between America's adventure in Iraq and the events at Virginia Tech. You were, relatively speaking, slammed on that suggestion, with commenters taking the view you were overreaching, that the suggestion was superficial. I can tell you this: what happened is very notable for the fact that it was an immigrant, and a Korean immigrant in particular. This would NEVER have happened a mere few years ago, and it heralds a sea change in Korean culture. And the meaning of this, I think, is that what happened is a partial byproduct of globalization, of the frenzied, unorganized mashing together of peoples and cultures and socioeconomic groups that before remained comfortably divided. The pressures that were released by that young man are, of course, those of a madman. But I see a deeper connection to the strange undercurrents swirling through our globalized reality. And I'll go a step further: it is not irrelevant to this that we, America, are acting like the biggest, baddest "Dog" on the world's block. So yes, the Iraq-Virginia Tech linkage is there; you just had to look for it, fools.
 

Deep stuff. I like it.
 

And note the Mr. T reference.

WGD
 

No sale here. Nuts are nuts the whole world over.

Legumes sans Frontieres -- oughta be an NGO.
 

Nuts are nuts, true enough. And Dr. Strangelove was full of them. As long as we include Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Truman and George Bush (to name a few) in the equation, we can continue to treat violence as an isolated phenomenon.
 

Uh, wasn't the perpetrator of the Harvard murder-suicide a decade ago a Vietnamese immigrant? Wasn't that during the good old days when Clinton was in the White House and the US was not at war? And hasn't suicide been a leading cause of death of young people in Korea for quite a while?