Iraq & VA Tech U: Are All Murders the SAME?
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (04/20/07)
In one newscast I was told detail about the massacre at Virginia Tech University as well as the massacre in Baghdad. One newscast segment focused on the slain students. Within seconds following a commercial, another newscast segment focused on the slain mortals in Iraq.
Thirty plus were slain in Virginia. One hundred thirty plus were slain in Baghdad.
I saw President Bush sharing personal grief with those in Virginia. I saw President Bush promising more US militia in Baghdad.
Those going to Baghdad will not all live to return to the US. That means that parents and friends will cry due to their deaths.
There were parents and friends crying in Virginia due to the students’ deaths.
Yet the Virginia deaths were caused by a deranged individual. However, the deaths in Baghdad are considered legitimately endorsed by Congress and the Oval Office.
Is something unbalanced about this picture?
I am troubled. How can the nation be torn apart because of bleeding bodies in Virginia while those bleeding bodies in Baghdad are taken as a given?
It doesn’t make any sense to me. Blood is blood. Murder is murder. Death is death. Crying is crying.
Innocent humans were slaughtered in Virginia. Innocent humans were slaughtered in Baghdad. Yet the Virginia massacre drew such heartfelt empathy and sorrow from the citizenry while the Baghdad massacre drew another ho-hum from many, including persons in political office.
There is something terribly wrong about all this.
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