I saw the Bill Moyers program ‘Journal’ online last night. He was interviewing Jon Stewart from the Daily Show. One of the items that was discussed was Stewart’s interview with an Iraqi author where they discussed how it was o be in a state of almost constant loss. The Iraqi author stated that most people that could leave the country did. So I wonder ‘who is left over there?’ The other point that was made, and which was also made on Morning Edition today, was that the press put so much attention on the Virginia Tech murders, yet the Iraqi people are murdered at a far greater rate each day over there. The idea occurs that the Iraqi people are depersonalized; I am not sure if that is based on race, distance, thoughtlessness, religion or what. How does one grieve in a war zone? How does our country not grieve those people?
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