[Woodstock]

This is a vanity post I suspect? (please do not eat me for lunch if I am posting incorrectly.) I have 14 and 17 year old tees who have no clue abut the history of the Middle East leading up to the most recent protests. Please send me intelligent links they can understand...preferrably video. Like many, these kids want info bites, not War and Peace. If they have their way, they will never have to fall asleep reading text like I still do. Many thanks in advance!

[Woodstock]

I cannot type. That is what happens when Daddy would not let his little girl, and only child, take typing for fear I would become a “secretary.”...LOL Who knew with PCs and office desk-tops (back in the day) we would have to write all our own stuff? Thanks Freeper-Dad! I have no doubt it made a huge difference in my career. Today we have voice-to-text; I really need to check that out.

[Uncle Ike]

” Like many, these kids want info bites, not War and Peace. “

That’s the attitude that got BHO elected... Those who forget - or never learn - History are doomed to repeat it, and you just can’t learn something so complex and nuanced as History from ‘info bites’...

If you read back through this thread, you’ll find that most of the serious posters here have spent years, and in some cases, decades, studying, or paying close attention to, Mideast, and World, History and Politics...

I don’t have any advice for you as to what to tell your kids, except, perhaps, that we live in a complex, dangerous, world, and if they want to survive in it, they had darned well better start paying attention....

JMO, of course - YMMV.....