Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Perspective

Here's part of a comment I found on Common Dreams :

Unlike many Americans, I never thought September 11, 2001 was a GREAT tragedy: a tragedy, yes, but not even remotely comparable to the Spanish Inquisition, indigenous genocide, slavery, Hitler’s holocaust, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or Stalin’s GULAG prisons. Those Americans who claimed that “everything changed” were innocent of experience and ignorant of history.

So true.
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  1. Anonymous11:43 AM

    Depends. How do you rate human lives that approx 3000 on home turf might justify how-many elsewhere?

    OK, so I was initially somewhat perturbed when it happened, rather on the lookout for something dodgy happening over here (especially as I was in London at the time)... but it was only a matter of hours before I noticed W injecting excessive "patriotism" into his rhetoric, playing the "victim" card to drum-up nationalist support. It would be well worth digging back through Sky News articles to see it.

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