We are, understandably, shocked and horrified at the Virginia Tech shootings (I work just a few miles from where Cho went to high school). However, I read in washingtonpoat.com today that in the capitol of Somalia, Mogadishu, there are hundreds dead due to "this week's battles pitting militias and Islamists against Somali and Ethiopian troops." The link to the story is:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/21/AR2007042100244.html?hpid=moreheadlines)
These kinds of stories, along with the genocide in Darfur, are reported but don't seem to emotionally affect us here in the United States in the same way. If it did, maybe this world wouldn't be so much of a constant charnel house. If I may (seriously) quote the original Star Trek, if we cared as much about suffering in the rest of the world as we do close to home, it might "render [our] history a bit less bloody."
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