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do we really care for? When God created the universe He must have spent more time making some human beings than making others. It is for this reason that an American life is worth at least 100 more points on the scale, the scale of human value, than other lives. Now before you take out your pens and start writing the editor to protest this insanity, let me assure you that I am not at all serious. The very serious and valid point that I do want to make is that many, if not most Americans, including some in our own government seem to ignore major tragedies or acts of terrorism unless they directly affect our own country. It seems to me that most of the blame for Sept. 11 has been addressed by accusing the Islamic religion of being divisive or promoting violence. But how many times have you heard government officials question our foreign policy? How many times do we address the fact that every year we pump out more than 50 percent of the world’s crude oil from nations where most of the citizens live in poverty? And why, may I ask again, are we really going to Afghanistan? Is it to fight the most honorable “war on terror,” a war in which more of our soldiers have been killed by friendly fire than by “the evil-doers,” as President Bush so eloquently put it? Or, is it to ensure that we posses the trillions of dollars worth of oil located in that region? I’m sure our beloved vice president and former CEO of Halliburton, a company which supplies equipment and other essentials to oil and gas companies for exploration, could give us an honest answer. Quite honestly, I’m tired hearing the ‘bs’ about how these “evil-doers,” these “agents of terror,” hate our country because of our prosperity or because of the religious freedom that we offer. I think they hate us because we don’t care whether they live or die as long as our businesses continue to bring in the dough. We as Americans have for too long believed that the universe revolves around us. We need to wake up and realize that as human beings we can best ensure our preservation, not by excluding the rest of the world, but by recognizing that we all are equally important. It’s not as if the women in Afghanistan just started being oppressed after Sept. 11 or the people in that country weren’t starving before then. The reality is that before Sept. 11, we didn’t really care. John
Sargent is a sophomore philosophy major from Fort Worth. |
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