1871 commercial airlines crash in Iraq
When a commercial airliner crashes, approximately 350 people perish. Around the world, people express shock and distress at their death. So what to make of the recently published figures that 655,000 innocent people have perished in Iraq since the invasion by the US. That's 1,871 jumbo airliners, in case you're wondering.
It's a figure that belies belief. And what beggars belief is the apathy everyone seems to have about that kind of loss. I've heard more about the 3,000 US soldiers killed than the 655,000 people that have died, and therein lies the problem. While I'm saddened by the death of a US serviceman, the perception that is held by the US media is that foreign lives do not matter. They are, in the parlance of today's skewed global morality, "collateral damage".
posted by Basil Epicurus at 3:58 PM
2 Comments:
sometimes people react to the single death more than they do to great numbers. the number of american soldiers is still very low considering but the iraqi civilian toll is incredibly high, thank you for that approximation of the number of jumbos, if you sit down & mark with a pen the dead iraqis each second, how long will it take you, consider in the end each tick to be a human life? sad huh?
Joseph Stalin said " The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic"
(I just finished playing Call of Duty 2, on the Xbox 360, and they showed that quote)
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