That isn't the point, snobbes. I don't mean to make this personal or anything, but comparing one tragedy to another simply to say that one is not tragic, is just simply stupid.
The completely bungled response of our government does not make it any less a tragedy.
That our government's response played right into the hands of the terrorists does not make it any less a tragedy.
That there is suffering elsewhere does not make it any less a tragedy.
This "which is worse?" logic is not logic at all. It makes as much sense as
Tom: "My next door neighbor is dying of pancreatic cancer."
Dick: "So what? My next door neighbor is dying of pancreatic cancer, AND he has an ingrown toenail, so your neighbor is not suffering."
You miss the entire point.
Its not lessening one tragedy by comparison... it is highlighting that one tragedy is IGNORED... the other tragedy has been the entire focus of National Policy and Funding in the half a trillion dollar range.
The point is that the US government's response to 911 is WAY out of proportion to its real effect and impact.
The primary and ongoing impact of 911 IS the government's over-reaction.
We are allowing an isolated and horrific event to become economically, and militarily exhausting.
And the folks doing it to us are our own leaders.. playing on our fears, and that imagery, to get us to sign away our rights and give them ever greater power.
Kicking doors in Falluja is NOT how you defeat terrorism. cruise missile a couple of real estate developments that are being built by sheiks who FUND Al Queda....
So to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and tell them that is not OUR problem... its THEIR problem......
Spend half a trillion replacing oil as the basis of our energy and industry..so that the middle east can go back to being the irrelevant wasteland it was before...
But most important of all- do it all on the down low... don't give them an inch of press coverage.
Make blowing yourself up no different than dropping into a hole....