the general message is indeed true.
hell even if "only" 500 people had died died during 9/11, it would be pretty much the same thing for the western world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
more or less a result of 9/11, between 100,000 and 1,000,000 casualties, but mostly only "towelheads" who deserved it probably, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)
a direct result of 9/11, ten thousands of civilian casualties, but again, only muslims, so its ok, right?
but there were also other outrageous things going on all over the world, also in recent times, that got 0 attention when you think about it.
most notably, to me, is the civil war/genocide in ruanda. it happened in 1994, and estimates vary from 0.5 to 1 million people getting killed, an additional unknown number raped, mutilated or orphaned.
in goddamn 1994. i was six at the time.
or srebrenica in former jugoslavia. 8000 people massacred in one fucking day. 1995, some 1000 miles away from where i live.
the most important thing is, why noone really cares or memorates it all over the world every year, its because it happened to people of 2nd class. face it, we, in the form of our western civilization, are not treating eastern europe, middle east and africa as being on-par with us. we look down on them and shrug it off when these awful things happen, but cry a goddamn river when something happens to us.
