Too bad invading Iraq has next to nothing with “fighting for our freedom”. But hey, that won’t stop you from holding that very stupid opinion!

Thanks for stopping by again. I hope the job hunt is going okay. I don’t remember seeing an update.

I hope we don’t need another catastrophe to remember the pain of 9/11.

It’s the same thing on the illegal immigration situation — politicians talking in circles, not doing much of anything, but if a terrorist ever enters through the border and causes problems, fingers will be pointed at the other party, when neither side is doing much about it.

We need a revival in our country, where we see things based on what’s most important (God) instead of what doesn’t offend a single person. (And it’s ironic that the politically correct movement still offends people and restricts freedom — it’s not just trying to be good, there’s some people driving it who are against the American way of life, who want to remove all Christianity from our society.)

Anyway (back on topic), it’s really sad that so many people have forgotten the lessons we should’ve learned from 9/11. I hope we’ll somehow remember them before there’s another catastrophe.

Mata ne…

I think about 4000 US soldiers have died in Iraq since 2003, but no one knows how many Iraqis have perished. Minal Panchal, an Indian was one of the deceased in the VT attack. Once the Indian media got wind of it, they took quotes of anybody or everybody who could relate to Minal in any way. Teachers, classmates, guy who delivers newspapers tec. everybody got a chnace to be on TV. Her profile on Orkut.com had to be closed by Google because over 15,000 condolkence messages were posted in her profile in less than a day.

A week after that, a poor woman delievered her baby with the help of her on the road outside a hospital. Why because the doctors and staff of the hospital were on strike and they would not let anyone enter. The baby died shortly after.
With all due respect, the VT killer was a mad freak, and that’s what insane people do. But what does one respond to situations when highly educated and perfectly sane doctors let new borns die right in front of their own eyes.

Only one channel aired this news and that too in the “other news from around the country” section of the news bulletin.

Manu,
I hope America never gets to the point where terrorism is a way of life and its gets to the point that mailing out compensation checks becomes routine. It is incredibly insensitive to mail checks to deceased relatives and also to send bad checks.

I personally value all human life and don’t personally rationalize it if a country has a large population, but I do blame it in large part on the media and governments for the perception on a human’s life. The tsunami that struck caused a tremendous loss of life. It was almost unbelievable. And then you hear about a bus crash that kills hundreds of people. I think, what would have happened if something like that occurred in the US? The Virginia Tech shootings killed 30 people and was all over the news, and the next day you hear about a hundred or so Iraqis killed in a suicide bomb and it barely made a headline.

After every terror attack /calamity, there’s a standard procedure, the government promises compensation to the next of kin of victims. More often than not, years pass before they even get to see the money. The bureaucracy has become so used to promising compensation that they approach it as a task they perform on a daily basis and make mistakes. Most recently,

In the recent Hyderabad blasts, a victim’s sister received a check not in her name, but in the name of her dead brother. How insensitive is that. In another case, the banks returned several checks that were presented by families of victims. Why? the account that was to be debited didn’;t have sufficient funds.

Bottom line is that there are so many of us that it doesn’t make a difference if a few are lost to terrorism.