mammikoura said:
Hundreds or people die every day because they don't have food/clean water, I feel far more sadness if I watch those little kids who live in africa without food/clean water than I feel when I saw the wtc towers collapse.
May I suggest that they both are equally tragic events, 9/11 where over 2000 were killed, you have to add the grief of around 12,000 relatives, & let us not forget that probably more babies would have been born of those killed, the plight of the African children is indeed very very tragic, there's no denying that, but we are dealing with two completely different issues here, on the one hand, the African situation, as I can see it is due perhaps to the natural ignorance of many tribes, & their suspicion of outsiders attempting to help by offering means of reducing the birth rate, we're talking about 30 million people I believe, it's a huge task to re-educate them about sex, plus thousands are dying every hour of aids, & we know in our hearts that both these tasks will
never be completed due lack of resources, it's a known fact that a lot of pledged donations of tens of millions never materialised.
As to 9/11, it was an act of war, plain & simple, shocking thing to say, but true, not ignoring the fact that some people, including some Americans agreed it happened because it was, in part, their fault.