VPI and Iraq

This week saw the murder of 32 innocent people at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The tragedy is unfathomable. America has too often suffered just such an event. Our collective sympathy is due the parents and friends of the dead and wounded. We must stand in their support as the healing begins.

And yet in the midst of our suffering and mourning we should not lose sight of the continued events in Iraq. The Iraqis suffer a loss equal or greater than the loss at VPI every single day. How can we turn the American tragedy into a lesson for all the world to see? We suffer today in our country and we tend to overlook the suffering around the world. What can we do as a country to resolve this problem?

We can offer our sympathy to the Iraqis just as we offer our sympathy to each other in our time of tragedy. What about more support? How many Americans are willing to put themselves into the mindset of an Iraqi mother or father who just lost a son or a daughter? How would we react if we suffered these losses each and every day in our own country? We as a nation must ponder this issue lest we lose sight of the ideals upon which our country was founded.