Comments on: Virginia Tech and Security http://www.articlediscovery.com/blog/2007/04/18/virginia-tech-and-security/ Articles, Analysis, Politics, Current Events for Smart, Thoughtful People Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:49:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Blog Comment Poster http://www.articlediscovery.com/blog/2007/04/18/virginia-tech-and-security/comment-page-1/#comment-2785 Blog Comment Poster Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:58:19 +0000 http://www.articlediscovery.com/blog/2007/04/18/virginia-tech-and-security/#comment-2785 To be honest, all this stuff about a Tech and Security | Article Discovery Politics sounds confusing for me... To be honest, all this stuff about a Tech and Security | Article Discovery Politics sounds confusing for me…

]]> By: David http://www.articlediscovery.com/blog/2007/04/18/virginia-tech-and-security/comment-page-1/#comment-643 David Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:03:53 +0000 http://www.articlediscovery.com/blog/2007/04/18/virginia-tech-and-security/#comment-643 Icar, You are unfortunately all too correct. The horror being experienced daily by many Iraqis is beyond the comprehension of most Americans. The American media coverage of the Virginia Tech incident will likely far exceed that given events in Iraq for quite some time. This is understandable as folks naturally tend to focus on events that occur close to home rather than half a world away. Hopefully, Americans will never have to find out for themselves on their own soil how bad conditions within a nation like Iraq can become. As bad as the horrific Virginia Tech event was it caused deaths to about as many people as one medium sized car bombing in Iraq and is highly unlikely to be repeated day after day as are the Iraq bombings. For those still supporting this senseless war let them look at the suffering the Virginia Tech shooting has caused. If they will multiply that by a factor of about 10,000 and consider how awful that result would be they may wish to reconsider their support for the Iraq war. Icar,

You are unfortunately all too correct. The horror being experienced daily by many Iraqis is beyond the comprehension of most Americans.

The American media coverage of the Virginia Tech incident will likely far exceed that given events in Iraq for quite some time. This is understandable as folks naturally tend to focus on events that occur close to home rather than half a world away.

Hopefully, Americans will never have to find out for themselves on their own soil how bad conditions within a nation like Iraq can become. As bad as the horrific Virginia Tech event was it caused deaths to about as many people as one medium sized car bombing in Iraq and is highly unlikely to be repeated day after day as are the Iraq bombings.

For those still supporting this senseless war let them look at the suffering the Virginia Tech shooting has caused. If they will multiply that by a factor of about 10,000 and consider how awful that result would be they may wish to reconsider their support for the Iraq war.

]]> By: Icar http://www.articlediscovery.com/blog/2007/04/18/virginia-tech-and-security/comment-page-1/#comment-642 Icar Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:27:14 +0000 http://www.articlediscovery.com/blog/2007/04/18/virginia-tech-and-security/#comment-642 The profound sorrow and alarm produced in the American public by the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech should give us a baseline for what the Iraqis are actually living through. They have two Virginia Tech-style attacks every single day. Every day in Iraq 64 Iraqis have been killed in political violence. And perhaps 500 a day throughout the country if you count criminal and tribal violence, are just shot down. Shot down, like the college students and professors at Blacksburg. We Americans can so easily, with a shudder, imagine the college student trying to barricade himself behind a door against the armed madman without. But can we put ourselves in the place of Iraqi students? The profound sorrow and alarm produced in the American public by the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech should give us a baseline for what the Iraqis are actually living through. They have two Virginia Tech-style attacks every single day.

Every day in Iraq 64 Iraqis have been killed in political violence. And perhaps 500 a day throughout the country if you count criminal and tribal violence, are just shot down. Shot down, like the college students and professors at Blacksburg.

We Americans can so easily, with a shudder, imagine the college student trying to barricade himself behind a door against the armed madman without. But can we put ourselves in the place of Iraqi students?

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