Loss

[benreilly]

This is a crazy crazy situation that should never have happened. Thoughts and prayers go out to all those ppl and families.

[KuRIoS]

Fault all i can say is that the middle east's problems causes me more sorrow than when some wacko does what just happened.
Of course i think it's sad and of course i feel for their families, but it's not nearly as bad as 100 deaths per day due to a war that america started(and haven't finished yet).

[idusy-org]

Fault all i can say is that the middle east's problems causes me more sorrow than when some wacko does what just happened.
Of course i think it's sad and of course i feel for their families, but it's not nearly as bad as 100 deaths per day due to a war that america started(and haven't finished yet).

I was about to make a nice long post to Fault, but this does it.

Not all of our forum members are American. And to be completly honost, it's no different no matter what country it's in. You know the individuals in the middle east just as much as you knew the American victims, just because it was in your country doesn't mean you should be emotionaly closer to the victems.

[Alkhara Majere]

Not all of our forum members are American.

And I get made fun of for that =(

[Fault]

And I get made fun of for that =(

Canadian is pretty damn close, heh

[Alkhara Majere]

Canadian is pretty damn close, heh

LIES AND SLANDER! :yuck:

[Enfeebleness]

One out of one of people with the name 'Enfeebleness' in this forum says America pwns.


That's 100%, that makes it true, now everyone thinks it in the world.
Domination.

[Alkhara Majere]

What shocked me the most about the horrible carnage on the campus of Virginia Tech this week was not the act itself - terrible as it was - but my reaction to it:

Oh. So it happened again, huh?

Don't kid yourselves; that was the reaction a lot of people had. Have we really become that desensitized?

Think about this: three (or more) separate car bombs will be detonated in Baghdad on any given day, as happened yesterday, resulting in the deaths of six times as many people as those killed on Monday in Virginia. At the same time, seventeen recently killed bodies were found buried on the grounds of a school yard in that same city. Did you hear about that? If you haven't you shouldn't be embarrassed. The news of those atrocities (if they were covered at all) were relegated to page eight or eighteen of most American newspapers. Even as I write these words, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez is testifying before a senate committee which is investigating his corrupt and inept handling of the Department of Justice - and all three cable news networks are are barely covering the event - undoubtedly the most important political story of the year. In the mean time, one hundred - or more - innocent people will be killed in Iraq today. Is it because they are Arabs and Muslims - that they are non-white, non-Anglo Saxon, non-Christian - that lends itself so readily to our seeming indifference?

Considering the effect that the killings in one American town - on one American day - have had on the nation's psyche, imagine - just imagine - what it must have been like during the last four years for the men, women and little children of Iraq? Or have they become desensitized to the slaughter as well? It just boggles the mind anyway you slice it.

(Many thanks to the Ranting king, Tom Degan)

Your Local Canadian,
Alkhara Majere

PS- I wonder how much empathy the people of Baghdad might be feeling at this very moment for the students of Virginia Tech? Just a thought.

[kelat]

well its sad. because at this point, people have become jaded to the combat in iraq. at first it was, "oh my, 100 soldiers dead in iraq!! :'( " then 200, 500, 1000, 2000... now they arent even counting anymore. this war in iraq has become a part of our lives now. we dont even think about it anymore, really. just, 'oh. another 2 car bombs in baghdad today.' so when this VT shooting occurs, on US land, everyone immediately responds. but if this had happened at a US school, but in another country, like many colleges have programs abroad where there is a branch of the college in said country, i dont think the story would have been so large. its still a terrible tragedy, as is the war in iraq.