Postby Shadowstar1922 » 07 May 2013, 20:58
Frook isn't even slightly implying that... .-.
For my siutation on the Boston Bombing, I'd side with what the Ayatollah of Iran said. Summing it up, he says that there's been so many bombings in the world, especially in the Middle East. Caused by terrorists on their own, or supported by nations in the Middle East, or terrorists supported by the USA, who carry out bombings that kill much more people and have a much more devastating affect. But, no one stops to send their respectful condolences to those countries.
Like, during the Syrian Civil War, there was either a shooting or a bombing, or a battle(sorry not sure) I believe it was, where 54 innocent people died, majority were small children and women. Around the time of the Boston Bombing, a US Drone Strike killed 14 people in Pakistan, 10 children, 4 women. One of the first Drone Strikes America did was in Yemen, which killed 26 children ad 14 women, and I believe a man or two. In all these instances, and the hundreds of other bombings, the world did not pause, not one bit. It didn't become much popular in the news, the World didnt' really care.
But the minute a bombing, that, is small when compared to the rest of the world's bombings, happens in a Western Country/a World Power, like the United Kingdom, France, and in this case, America, all of a sudden the whole world must stop and pay their respects? All of the world should pay the cost of this small tragedy in America? When it happens much worse in so many other countries?
Yes, it was a tragedy, but the popularity and the exaggeration is just too far. If the bombings in the Middle East aren't important enough, aren't devastating enough, aren't horrible enough to make the whole world stop and pause and think about what just happened, then the same thing happening in a Western country, most certainly should not make the whole world pause and everyone to feel as much sorrow and regret and sympathy as they do to the Western bombing.
Look, I'm not saying the Bombing was okay. I'm not taking the side of the terrorists. I'm obvioulsy on the side of the people. But, how big the Boston Bombing has become, is a bit, overrated you could say, and the sympathy given to the American people, is not so much, non-deserving, they do most certainly deserve it, but it's been given too much.
And, This is what Frook was saying basically too. This is what the Ayatollah of Iran was saying too. And I agree to it. We're not saying America should experience 20-30 bombings a year, or in a month, and we're not saying what happened on that day was a good thing, it was obviously a bad thing, but just because it happens in a Western country, doesn't make it any different than it happening in the Middle East.
If the World is giving all this attention, all this sympathy and respect to America, and more specifically Boston, than the countries of the Middle East should be getting 10x more respect and attention and sympathy.
