[antimedia] antimedia: Words cannot express....

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Posted by antimedia:
Words cannot express....
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   ....the sorrow I felt when reading [1]this post from Omar regarding
   the students killed today. Nor can I fully voice the disgust and
   revulsion I feel toward a world that turns it back on the helpless.
   There is no greater coward in the world than an anti-war activist.
   They will not lift a finger to help the helpless, because to do so
   would be an imposition on their pampered existence or violate their
   twisted principles. Some of their own might have to go in harms way.
   Some might even die. And really, is a brown-skinned Arab or a
   black-skinned African really worth the loss of one American life or
   the expenditure of one American dollar?
   The helpless of the world cry out in desperation as the ravenous
   wolves eat their young and the most highly educated, most wealthy,
   most privileged people in the world (I'm talking about Europe too!)
   argue about whether or not the sacrifice is worth it, about whether it
   was "right" to intervene, about whether it was "legal" to invade a
   sovereign nation to end its people's suffering.
   The earth wails with the blood of the innocent and many turn their
   backs. Just sixty-five years after millions died at the hands of the
   Nazis the world cannot muster the resolve to save one more. What does
   that say about us as humans? What does it say about our selfishness?
   Is freedom only worthwhile if it requires no sacrifice? Do the other
   people of the world, so far away from our daily worries, not matter at
   all? If not us, who? If not now, when? How can you sleep at night if
   the loss of innocent life does not haunt your dreams?
   While you read this article another five people died in Darfur and one
   person died in Iraq. By the time you read something again at this time
   tomorrow, 317 people will have died in Darfur and 43 more will have
   died in Iraq. Is there not one of these that's worth any sacrifice on
   our part? Is it really none of our business that they are dying?

References

   1. http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2007/01/mourning-fallen-angels-of-iraq.html