Why is it that 100,000 innocent people can die in a US lead war and few Americans bat an eye, but 13 Americans die and Americans are up in arms?

    In no way am I minimizing what happened yesterday. It is a horrific tragedy and my deepest sympathies are with the families and friends of the victims. I just want to re-iterate this to make it clear: What happened yesterday was horrible. It is the greatest stain on humanity that people do such horrific things to each other.

    But I also feel sympathy for the 100,000 plus innocents that have been killed in the US-Iraqi war. The suffering that has been inflicted on their families is just as horrific as that suffered by many Americans yesterday. I find it incredibly interesting, and disturbing, that more people don't similarly feel the suffering of people who happen to be born in a different country.

   We are all people after all; we all suffer just the same when tragedy strikes. And I know this blog will upset a lot of people, but that is not the intention. The point is that all countries do this; The US is just one example that I have experienced firsthand.