Post by wyldberi on Apr 16, 2007 17:11:24 GMT -5
This is a tragedy.
Pardon me if that response seems underwhelming and cold. But the relatives, friends, and associates of those who were killed will have to mourn the dead. They were strangers to me.
With everything else taking place in my country and in the world, I can't help but asking what makes this event more eventful or worthy of reporting than the daily deaths occuring in Iraq thanks to bush's "Iraq policy." During the 4 years the Citizens of the United States have allowed our military to illegally occupy Iraq, the reports of deaths that have occured there have numbed me beyond the point where I consider this shooting at a college campus as something deserving the amount of air time and column inches being devoted to it.
When I weigh the 30 - 40 individuals who may have been killed in Virginia against the 600,000 deaths inflicted upon innocent Iraqi Citizens, I can't help but adapting a different perspective on this rare outbreak of violence in America. In Iraq, it's a rare day that goes by when at least a dozen people ARE NOT KILLED in Baghdad, alone.
When I hear commentators talk about how the American people have not been asked to sacrifice while this "war on terror" continues, I guess my reaction proves this to be false. It's true, I still have a place to live, I have more food to eat than I need, I still have a job -- but what's happened to my feelings? Perhaps the sacrifice Americans have paid for the violence in Iraq we are responsible for has been the loss of our humanity. It slipped away in the dark of the night when we weren't looking. Perhaps it is we who have become the walking dead in this "war."
Pardon me if that response seems underwhelming and cold. But the relatives, friends, and associates of those who were killed will have to mourn the dead. They were strangers to me.
With everything else taking place in my country and in the world, I can't help but asking what makes this event more eventful or worthy of reporting than the daily deaths occuring in Iraq thanks to bush's "Iraq policy." During the 4 years the Citizens of the United States have allowed our military to illegally occupy Iraq, the reports of deaths that have occured there have numbed me beyond the point where I consider this shooting at a college campus as something deserving the amount of air time and column inches being devoted to it.
When I weigh the 30 - 40 individuals who may have been killed in Virginia against the 600,000 deaths inflicted upon innocent Iraqi Citizens, I can't help but adapting a different perspective on this rare outbreak of violence in America. In Iraq, it's a rare day that goes by when at least a dozen people ARE NOT KILLED in Baghdad, alone.
When I hear commentators talk about how the American people have not been asked to sacrifice while this "war on terror" continues, I guess my reaction proves this to be false. It's true, I still have a place to live, I have more food to eat than I need, I still have a job -- but what's happened to my feelings? Perhaps the sacrifice Americans have paid for the violence in Iraq we are responsible for has been the loss of our humanity. It slipped away in the dark of the night when we weren't looking. Perhaps it is we who have become the walking dead in this "war."