Laurent wrote: Simple arithmetics: in order to get media attention 5 American lives = 500,000 Tibetans = 50,000 Kurds = 1 Palestinian = 100,000 Tutsis.
These numbers are just an example but you get the idea. Who's to blame: Short attention spans? Journalists? Violent movies? All of the above? and now me: Laurent, I think your math is off. The number of Tutsis for example is at least 750,000 and even that did not really catch American attention, even though the killing of 750,000 Tutsis happened within the last 10 years, I am sure most Americans could not tell you where that happened, or that they even remember it. I think you are also way low on the other numbers too. And our current administration ran in the last campaign opposed to American peace keeing troops being in Bosnia despite the massacres there. Hell, more than twice as many people were killed in one day at Srebrenica then werte killed on September 11 and who remebers that even though that also was within the last 10 years. We are a self-absorbed people. If you asked Americans to identify Anna Nicole Smith, Kelly Clakson, Srebrenica, and where 750,000 Tutsis were slaughtered, most could only answer the first two. And that is just the way it is. Its sad. Vince
