[whatnotests]

Like nobody is shocked when yet another tornado rips apart yet another trailer court in the Midwest.

I am numb to reports of violence in the Middle East. It seems that every day someone is getting blown up over there for no reason at all except for ideology.

[_petronius]

I can't help but think of Susan Sontag's book, "Regarding the Pain of Others":

'A citizen of Sarajevo, a woman of impeccable adherence to the Yugoslav ideal, whom I met soon after arriving in the city the first time in April 1993, told me: "In October 1991 I was here in my nice apartment in peaceful Sarajevo when the Serbs invaded Croatia, and I remember when the evening news showed footage of the destruction of Vukovar, just a couple of hundred miles away, I thought to myself, 'Oh, how horrible,' and switched the channel. So how can I be indignant if someone in France or Italy or Germany sees the killing taking place here day after day on their vening news and says, 'Oh, how horrible,' and looks for another program. It's normal. It's human."'

It really is a book that everyone should read. It seems to me that it becomes more relevant and important by the day.

[perlgeek]

At least the bombings in Iraq didn't happen before the invasion from the US and allied forces, so even though we're numb, we should at least accept some amount of responsibility.

[omginternets]

I'm still waiting for the US to accept a non-trivial amount of refugees for this precise reason. (Not going to happen...)

[lmz]

I think if the US didn't have an ocean separating them from the Middle East they would do things quite differently there.

[omginternets]

I think so too, and it says a lot about the 51% of them that voted for Bush a second time.

If the EU had a sense of humor, they'd ship the refugees to South Carolina.

[saiya-jin]

"some" amount is a severe understatement in this case