First I must say, this thread is about what Mikeosoft the fact that people died. It is insensitive for anyone to say who died in Iraq or anywhere else in the world, when Mikeosoft personal friend died. Not a news report about some people none of us here met. Imagine the person you grew up next to died. Try to put that in perspective.
It's bloody sad either way but really, I don't know Mikeosoft's friend do I? How it is different for me personally from someone else who died that I also don't know?
No disrespect meant, this is a horrific incident and all the lives lost were a senseless waste. But these are 32 deaths in an overseas country shooting. On the same page 45 people died in bomb blasts in another overseas country too. Both are tragic, senseless wastes.
*EDIT* Jesus, I just saw on the news over 150 people were killed today in a blast in a Baghdad market. But it was late in the news bulletin as per usual. For some reason people care less about it......the shootings in the US were still number one.
That's easy. It is because people are sick of the war. Any act of violence in Iraq is shown as losing the war. So this bit of information is usually put towards the end of the news reports. When a shooting like the one in the US occures, it is occuring in "peaceful" country. So if it can happen in the US, it can happen anywhere type of thing. Iraq is looked at under the circumstances it is under. There are hundreds of thousands of people killed or allowed to die in Africa every year. This shodows all the deaths in the rest of the world combined, and do you see any of it on the news? The only reason you see Iraq stuff on the news is because of the war. If there was no war, and the bombings continued to occure, noone would give a crap.
Wait and see what happens in Iraq when we pull out. There will be a genocide occuring and nothing on the news.