Originally Posted by
Verye
I'm an atheist, and also an American.
Kbeeuts, Iraq is another country, very far away from us. Why should we care more about an attack on that country than for an attack that was carried out on our soil?
If someone living in France heard about 9/11, they probably wouldn't care. If some political group planted a bomb in the Eiffel Tower, destroyed it, and killed 2000 people with it, I think they'd care about that much, much more than 9/11.
Tons of innocent people are killed every day all around in the world. It's not to say that people shouldn't care about these things, but people will definitely remember bad events that happened in their own country much more vividly than they will events that have happened in different countries, especially ones on different continents and even different hemispheres.