On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Wolfe, Stephen S YA-02 6 MDSS/SGSI wrote:
> The conclusion I get is it is a narrow minded slam against the Iraq
> war/invasion and narrow minded in the sense that it selectively
> focuses
> on what is important as far as 'human' life is concerned. Focus on
> 'human life' and tell me what the cartoon is portraying encompasses
> all
> unnecessary loss of 'human life'?
Not at all. The cartoon reflects the fact that we value the lives of
Americans greatly, and really don't care about the lives of anyone
else. If all loss of life were equally tragic, we should have the
same response, but we don't.
32 innocent people were slaughtered by a madman in Virginia. This
merits days and days of front-page headlines, and 24-hour coverage on
TV. Yet this past Wednesday, in a country with less than 1/10 the
population of the US, 233 were killed, with 183 of them in a single
incident. This follows 85 killed on Tuesday, 51 on Monday, and 65 on
Sunday. That's over thirteen times as many tragic deaths - why aren't
they newsworthy? Why aren't Americans saddened and shocked by these?
Are these Iraqi lives not 'human'? Or are they not as valuable?
-- Ed Leafe
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