Putting it in Perspective
The events at Virginia Tech were certainly a tragedy. Yet more people die every day in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of them our own sons and daughters. None of these people are any less important or valuable than those who died at VT. Yet our flag is at half-staff for the victims of a suicidal gunman, but not for our own soldiers returning home in their flag-draped coffins (surely no less worthy?). Sadly there is just as little logic behind the deaths of those in Iraq, at least from an American-intervention perspective, as there is in the twisted logic that led to the rampage at VT. I don’t mean to belittle the loss of the loved ones in the VT tragedy or the sacrifices made by those sent to Iraq, but mean to bring focus to the fact that thousands have died in a war that has nothing at all to do with a war on terror (remember the real roots of our misguided actions against Iraq people: it wasn’t terror or 9/11, despite what the media and our administration would revise history to say, but a failed UN resolution). Yes, what happened at VT was terrible, and my heart and thoughts go to the families and victims. But please, remember that our sons and daughters are in harm’s way and dying every day because of an administration that cares only for its own agenda and not for the people it purports to represent. Please put the tragedy at VT in perspective and remember that many young men and women of the same age as those who died at VT are in danger as well.
Please remember (before commenting in dumb-ass ways) that I’m not a Republican or a Democrat, a liberal or a conservative…I am Independent. This is not a call for withdrawal from Iraq (we’re beyond that point and must see it through or risk greater instability and loss of life for those we leave behind) but rather a plea for focus.
