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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
43,220 US highway deaths, 18,209 US murders, the average American child will have watched 8,000 murders on television by the age of twelve. Is it surprising that people don't freak at the numbers from Iraq, especially the civilian (innocent??) numbers?  |
You have to take into account, as well, that many people don't believe innocents are being killed in any great numbers in Iraq. The child who was killed had a gun, the old woman who was killed was carrying a bomb. That's the mindset. And beyond that, "they're" not like "us." "They're" a people we really don't know much about from a foreign culture and with a strange religion. Xenophobia plays a large part here.
I have been talking with quite a few people in my neighborhood canvassing, and the staunch Republicans will always bring up the issue of a "steady hand at the helm" of the war. I don't see how anyone can consider George Jr.'s hand a steady one. It feels to me like we're all passengers at the mercy of a drunk driver who refuses to admit that he's had far too many and his judgement is severely impaired as he takes us all carreening down the highway. It seems to me that people are too afraid or too ignorant to admit something is seriously wrong here. Switzerland is looking better every day.