The Tsunami: God's little way of putting 9/11 in perspective

[TeddyKGB]

Yeah, I said it.

Damn, now all those country music singers look like assholes. ;-)

[blackcat77]

1. I've said the same thing on my chat board

The response I got was surprisingly muted. One person said that the main difference was that 9-11 was manmade...

To me, the media response is very telling.

[unblock]

2. i've been saying something like this since 9/12.

so many more people die from drunk driving and smoking and preventable heart disease and so on.

9/11, of course, was a horrible tragedy, but not something to use as an excuse to eternally fight against the world seeking vengeance that is impossible to find.

perspective, jeez!

[Celeborn Skywalker]

4. I agree

The ideal response to 9/11 would have been very limited strikes in Afghanistan, much better port and airport security, and increased humanitarian assistance to the Middle-East to encourage friendship between the them and the USA.

[ramapo]

7. End the Occupation

There will be no friendship as long as the US occupies Muslim countries.

Iraq is only the latest problem. It all started in Saudi Arabia adn has spread from there.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. With the addition of some black-ops team to take out OBL.

You know, like the secret teams in 'Clear & Present Danger'. I was frankly surprised that we didn't have a brigade of Marines in Afghanistan within two weeks. They're supposed to be a 'ready force'.

But that wasn't in *'s plans.

[shesemsmom]

3. Funny

That very thought ran through my head today

[Pithy Cherub]

5. It does reshape the perspective, but only for those with

open minds. *'s has been hermetically sealed for a really loooonnnng time! Tiny minds do tiny and terrible things.

[indigobusiness]

6. It does make W's war adventures

seem all the more foolish.

[MasonJar]

8. Other countries put up with terrorism often and have for genera-

tions; Bush either facillitated this terror or manipulated it for four years.

[WillieWoohah]

9. Whaddaya mean "now"? :-) n/t

[zulchzulu]

11. Repugs will be politicizing 9/11 for years to come

All those hairy brown people and chubby Swedes dying in a flood where half the US population wouldn't even be able to pronounce let alone locate on a map will mean nothing in a month.

Yeah, occasionally some stories about revolts and starvation will come on the tube in the second block of the news for a few months. But it will be nothing like politicizing the Twin Towers on 9/11 for the Repugs. I'd bet 60% of the US population doesn't even know how to spell "tsunami".

Wait until the 5th Anniversary of 9/11 just in time for the 2006 elections. The GOP will be pimpin' their shit over the victims' dead bodies for political gain.

The 2004 Tsunami? Was that the same year the Red Sox won?

[progdonkey]

14. I'll bet...

that same 60% of the US population giggles idiotically whenever news comes from "Phi Phi" island.

[DemBones DemBones]

12. Amen to that. Americans overreacted to 9/11, acting as if

it were the worst disaster ever to befall humanity. It was horrible but not even the biggest disaster of 2001, much less the century.

[doc03]

13. Yea but they are A-mur-cun lives.

Like WWII France lost like 3 1/2 million, Russia lost something around 30 million. But America lost something under 500,000 I believe and we think they are ungratefull for us bailing them out. How many civilians were killed in German and Japanese cities or more recently in Iraq. The other morning on the radio the lead was, "at least 12 American lives were lost in the tsunami."