Sunday, November 16, 2003
Value of life --
I was watching the movie Black Hawk Down today on TV. Set me thinking on whether after 9/11 Americans have got used loss of life and whether death of Americans is now making much less news than what it was before.
In the Black Hawk Down incident, 19 Americans died and the resulting ruckus at home made Clinton remove the American troops from Somalia the very next day. Now in Iraq, already a Black Hawk and 3 other helicopters have been shot down. More than 150 Americans have been killed since "major combat" was declared over on May 1st by Bush. And still, the news channels report the American deaths in the same pitch as they cover the Kobe Bryant or Laci Peterson case :-(
I hope that Americans do not forget the value of life. I had always appreciated Americans for the value they put on each and every life. Hope the increasing number of casualty does not bring to Americans the same apathy that we Indians have towards life.
I was watching the movie Black Hawk Down today on TV. Set me thinking on whether after 9/11 Americans have got used loss of life and whether death of Americans is now making much less news than what it was before.
In the Black Hawk Down incident, 19 Americans died and the resulting ruckus at home made Clinton remove the American troops from Somalia the very next day. Now in Iraq, already a Black Hawk and 3 other helicopters have been shot down. More than 150 Americans have been killed since "major combat" was declared over on May 1st by Bush. And still, the news channels report the American deaths in the same pitch as they cover the Kobe Bryant or Laci Peterson case :-(
I hope that Americans do not forget the value of life. I had always appreciated Americans for the value they put on each and every life. Hope the increasing number of casualty does not bring to Americans the same apathy that we Indians have towards life.
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