Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Baghdad and Blacksburg

I had just finished writing an editorial inspired by this reported quote from Iraqi mothers, had spent the morning looking at websites enumerating civilian deaths in Iraq and describing the correlative effects of the war on daily life.

Then I heard on the radio of the shootings at Virginia Tech, and even as the reported death count rose throughout the afternoon, I still, horribly, felt dispassionate about the whole affair.

This is a sickness, the comparing of one horror to another, only to discard one for want of bodies.

Yet I must let others feel burdened by the Blacksburg tragedy. I can't pretend that I feel anything more than passing sadness. Might as well try to keep the sorrow well-distributed.

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