{"id":198,"date":"2014-06-17T15:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suomenkuvalehti.fi\/kirjeita-aidille\/?p=198"},"modified":"2014-06-17T22:15:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:15:52","slug":"worst-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suomenkuvalehti.fi\/kirjeita-aidille\/worst-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The worst news in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear Mom,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They say there are two kinds of people in the world \u2013 those who see danger and run away. And those who run towards it. When I was working as a journalist, this was kind of like the litmus test to see if the job you were doing was your true calling (if you want to be good at it, it has to be) or just a paycheck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always wished I\u2019d be brave enough to run towards danger if I ever had to. But the truth is I\u2019d probably be too scared. Luckily, I was working in Helsinki and the most danger I ever had to face was getting elbowed by another journalist as we fought to be first to grab copies of a Nokia quarterly report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then came September 11, 2001. As you and I talked on the phone while the second plane hit the Trade Center, the only thing I could think of was how quickly I could book a flight to New York. Had I been in downtown Manhattan when it happened, I\u2019m sure I would have run away. But sitting in my apartment in Helsinki watching hell break loose in my home and around the people I love most in the world, all I wanted to do was put my sneakers on and start running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was almost 13 years ago. What\u2019s happening today in Syria and Iraq makes it feel like yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you\u2019re born and raised in New York City, it\u2019s impossible to read about what\u2019s going on<\/a> without wondering what it could mean for \u201chigh-value targets\u201d like New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you believe what all the experts seem to be saying, what\u2019s happening right now is literally the worst news in the world. ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, seems to be seizing Iraqi and Syrian cities with the ease with which my 3-year-old seizes toys from her baby brother. And they\u2019ve been freeing tons of jihadist prisoners and stealing hundreds of millions<\/a> of dollars along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds pretty scary. Terrifying, actually. But I guess instilling terror is really the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iraq and Syria might seem like they\u2019re a world away, but really they\u2019re both just a flight away from New York, Helsinki (listen guys, it\u2019s June 17th and hailing out today, so if I were you I\u2019d pick someplace else) and the rest of the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s a fact that ISIS, which is too extreme even for al Qaeda, is the most popular group amongst western fighters looking to join the jihad. It\u2019s estimated that around 3,000 Europeans and hundreds of Americans have gone to Syria to fight and train. I\u2019m sure Syria is very nice and the food is probably delicious, so I hope they stay and enjoy themselves. But I fear they\u2019ll come \u201chome\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s funny, but whenever I express the fear that something terrible might happen in New York again, people here tend to either a) look at me like I\u2019m on acid, or b) remind me that plenty more innocent civilian lives have been lost in other places in the world than the 3,000 who died on 9\/11. That\u2019s true. And that\u2019s terrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if sending God only knows how many troops, tanks and planes to run towards the danger in Iraq and Syria puts the people and city I love so much in more danger, it\u2019s just not worth it. Nothing is. I guess that makes me a coward. And a Democrat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I) Love (New York),<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lissu<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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