[_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.