No one with a grain of empathy or decency would argue that the VT murders were senseless tragedies. Since the onset of this mass murder, all newspapers, TV news programs and radio talk shows have devoted virtually every minute analyzing and exploring every detail of this terrible event. 32 students were brutally murdered and the country is gripped by a wave of tears and bitter outrage.
Three days ago, 165 people were killed in Iraq. Few people blinked. In the last month, 30 troops were murdered. No one even noticed. These events were buried somewhere on page 10 of the newspapers, and few TV or radio programs even bothered to report these deaths.
2007-04-20 07:08:15 · 15 answers · asked by Hemingway 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
With all due respect to the families of the VT victims, why are the lives of these students so much more valuable and deserving of our grief than the lives of our troops and Iraqi civilians? Have we become so unaffected and desensitized by the victims of the Iraqi war that we barely acknowledge their deaths? It seems as if we have dehumanized the fallen soldiers and Iraqi citizens to the point that we’re barely fazed by their deaths.
While the media scrutinizes every aspect of the VT massacre and honors each murdered student with biographies and eulogies, we quietly ignore the continuous blood flowing in Iraq. Our troops are forgotten heroes. Shame on America.
2007-04-20 07:08:57 · update #1
The media focuses on what sells, and violence at home sells.
As a mother of a 17 yo i can empathize more readily with what the students and parents of VT are going through verses the families of soldiers abroad-AND I spent 4 years in the Army! My 1st husband served in Desert Storm and due to be shipped to Afganistan.
Most of the American people can empathize with what's happening in their own back yard better than what's happening over seas.
The media is a dog that will attack whatever 'fresh meat' is available-this week it has been VT; remember when Anna Nicole Smith died? Every news cast was about her. Now, she's 'dead meat'. npi.
2007-04-20 10:40:00 · answer #1 · answered by mysticgraystar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To use the old COP term NHI (no Humans involved)
Law enforcement has been profiling people as non human for years. Now American Reds are doing the same thing to Iraqi's
Does A RedsStater mom cry louder and more emphatically when her child dies, than an Iraqi mom? Ask anyone on team Red and they will tell you Iraqi's don't feel human compassion they are base animals. They are not subject to the passions and desires of a WASP RedsStater.
Go team Red Go
2007-04-20 07:21:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I DID BLINK~I give ALL victims Regretefull True Respect & Love & Rememberence reguardless if it's in VT -USTrooPS-Iraq'Citizens-Attacks on Human Lifes~You Would be surprised How Many People CARE~But Have No Control of Any of it~The gates of Hell are Widening~The road to Life is narrow-The road to Hell wide.and getting wider day by day. So says the Bible.
GOD Knows all about our worries and says Many will grow faint from fear angwish.
~ the Whole world needs to look up~
2007-04-20 08:25:20 · answer #3 · answered by reseda1420 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think the American people are getting numb on the Carnage in Iraq...all the stories are starting to sound like repeats. A Truck bomb goes off in a market outside of Baghdad and kills 187 people. It sounds like a broken record. I feel helpless. I personally can't fix it. It bothers me every day...but I am getting numb so I can function during my normal daily routine.
2007-04-20 07:19:40 · answer #4 · answered by Laughing Man Copycat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One week, or longer, about coverage of the worst shooting massacre in U.S. history doesn't indicate we have forgotten about the war, or those dying in Iraq every day. Most people can think about more than one thing at once.
2007-04-20 07:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah Bush must be really happy he's not on the focus anymore. Imus and Cho are the sensation now.
2007-04-20 07:13:08 · answer #6 · answered by Siervocal 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well Iraq is in a war and we're not ! Sarcasm btw
2007-04-20 07:27:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many different reasons. 1. There is a WAR in Iraq. 2. The men and women in Iraq VOLUNTEERED for battle. 3. The military is sworn to protect us. etc
2007-04-20 07:12:36 · answer #8 · answered by elmar66 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Because when you joint the army there some part of you and your family that expect it or more prepared. But you would'nt think oh time to go to class doo do dooodie doo BLAM your dead.
2007-04-20 07:18:42 · answer #9 · answered by crystalmia628 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think we're just more stunned by sensless violence. With the war, at least we know political/military reasons behind the violence - but with these school shootings we're all just stuck with the question "why?"
2007-04-20 07:17:53 · answer #10 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋