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2/02/2003 04:50:00 AM | Jared Alessandroni Politics in Tragedy It was also disturbing to see Israel play so politically with the death of their astronaut. I do think it's unfortunate that the Iraqi people could look upon this tragedy so harshly, but they are just as ridiculous in their equivocation - that this is God's punishment - as the "administration", the press, and especially Israel have been in talking about their New Nightmare. This has nothing to do with the Holocoaust. This has nothing to do with their struggle against the people whose land they've spent the last half a century taking more and more of. It was a flight where something went wrong, and that's too bad, but it's not right to use this to increase the enmity between nations. And we're just as bad. We don't care much about science in this country, and no one knew about this latest shuttle mission. But, America Mourns Again. Maybe America is mourning so that Bush can remind us of how spat upon we are, how abused, and we can go in and kill some Iraqis. Maybe America likes to define itself by its tragedies because we can't admit to how little we care about each other or the rest of the world. 9,000 people died today of AIDS, and 7 of flying in a space shuttle. This nation loves to pretend that we care so much about human life - but we could do so much more to prevent its loss and it doesn't even cross our minds that we should. The only human life we notice is symbolic, and when even that explodes in the infinite Texas sky, we fight to pretend it matters. perma link |
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