A sea of troubles

[muckefuck]

A Friend (IRL, an acquaintance) posted in his LJ:

Well, I'm not an Iraqi mother trying to comfort her children right now. She must be the most sorrowful creature on the planet right now.

I didn't want to respond there, because it would've sounded crass, but I don't agree. The most sorrowful creatures on the planet are suffering in countries where there are no reporters "embedded" in platoons or holed up in hotels in the capital waiting for footage of aerial bombardment. The EU is not meeting to discuss reconstruction of their devastated homelands and there isn't a raft of NGOs waiting to play watchdog during the occupation. The world has forgotten them, and they know it.

Cold comfort to the Iraqis, of course, but worth keeping in mind as we focus minutely on one trouble spot on a troubled globe.

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pitiful

[darkphuque.livejournal.com]

I grieve for the Iraqi mother. I grieve for the Iraqi elderly. I grieve for the millions that madman and his family have murdered. I remember that we helped keep the Madman in power. I remember that we gave him money and arms with which to stave off the Ayatollahs as Militant Islam attempted to move westward. Yes, I remember and I grieve.

The News and the press are full of Iraq and remind of the millions that will loose their lives. I wonder…

Why haven’t I seen anything about the 2 million + that will starve to death in Ethiopia? Why haven’t I heard anything about the brutal torture and literal enslavement of Christians in Sudan? Hmmm…Wanna buy a nice Sudanese Bed Boy? I remember, but I guess I am just a grain of sand in the conscience of the world.

OH YES…What **I** did forget was the fact that Ethiopia has no resources, no oil like Iraq, and maybe Bush would like a nice Christian Sudanese Bed Boy.