Sunday, September 19, 2004
"Self-Absorbed Americans Inflict Far More Misery Than They Endure
"Self-Absorbed Americans Inflict Far More Misery Than They Endure"
by Stan Moore
(Saturday 11 September 2004)
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'Americans feel far more empathy for foreigners who died in the World Trade Center than for innocent victims of the American 'Shock and Awe' campaign over Baghdad.'
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Americans are about to relive the misery of 9/11 with wailing, moaning, lamenting and endless self-pity and self-absorption. As they do so, they will also wallow in mourning of the loss of 1000 soldiers in the invasion of Iraq. The tears will be real. The grief will be sincere and the pain heartfelt. Americans care about themselves uniquely and seem to have far less empathy for the suffering of others who in reality have suffered far more and far longer at the hands of the American government and the American military.
Americans and their government do not even bother to keep accurate records of Iraqi combatants killed in opposition to American hegemony. Neither are records kept of innocent Iraqi victims of U.S. bombings and displays of firepower. We do not know how many Iraqi children and adults and elderly were sickened or who died prematurely from the sanctions levied against Iraq by after the Gulf War. Yet, estimates are that Iraqis have died by the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, or perhaps a million individuals or more, compared with less than four thousand Americans who have died in since 9/11. The self-pity by Americans dwarfs American pity for Iraqis and Afghan people have have suffered far, far more grievous injury.
Americans feel far more empathy for foreigners who died in the World Trade Center than for innocent "
by Stan Moore
(Saturday 11 September 2004)
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'Americans feel far more empathy for foreigners who died in the World Trade Center than for innocent victims of the American 'Shock and Awe' campaign over Baghdad.'
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Americans are about to relive the misery of 9/11 with wailing, moaning, lamenting and endless self-pity and self-absorption. As they do so, they will also wallow in mourning of the loss of 1000 soldiers in the invasion of Iraq. The tears will be real. The grief will be sincere and the pain heartfelt. Americans care about themselves uniquely and seem to have far less empathy for the suffering of others who in reality have suffered far more and far longer at the hands of the American government and the American military.
Americans and their government do not even bother to keep accurate records of Iraqi combatants killed in opposition to American hegemony. Neither are records kept of innocent Iraqi victims of U.S. bombings and displays of firepower. We do not know how many Iraqi children and adults and elderly were sickened or who died prematurely from the sanctions levied against Iraq by after the Gulf War. Yet, estimates are that Iraqis have died by the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, or perhaps a million individuals or more, compared with less than four thousand Americans who have died in since 9/11. The self-pity by Americans dwarfs American pity for Iraqis and Afghan people have have suffered far, far more grievous injury.
Americans feel far more empathy for foreigners who died in the World Trade Center than for innocent "
