The whole situation made me think of how we treat news, in general. When I hear about car bombings and murders I don’t really think about the people. Unless you identify with a person it is hard to sympatize with them. It wasn’t until 9/11 that we truly could understand the devastation a terrorist attack has on a nation. We had not felt the pain for some time. You could point to Oklahoma City and the original terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers. Those were the most recent and they had been six years or more previous to 9/11. The tragedies were great but not to the scale of 9/11. If you think about it, it was three attacks in about a 10 year period. It is not everyday, like it is for many. But 9/11 should be the touchstone we use to understand their suffering. The car bombings in the Middle East are just as horrible for them as 9/11 was for us. They, however, get attacked almost daily. The fear we felt after 9/11 is the fear they feel everyday. It is when we realize what they experience daily, we can truly feel their pain and finally identify with them.
More thoughts this book spawned tomorrow.
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