Reasons for Indifference

Still many stories go unheard, the death are grieved by families and empathized with those who've lost their own as well. But the one article protests and rebukes about The Forgotten American, Ahmet Dogan, a 19 year old teen killed in gunfire by Israeli forces while en route to gaza for charity aid, who didn't receive as much coverge as anticipated from the columnist. The author's criticism is derived from institutional racism and directed towards the media and congress alike. But I cannot come to support, not in its argument in the deference of the teen's death -I would be sort of taken aback as well if I was killed in a good cause somewhere and not reported at least few times in the news in my country- but its justification pointed at the cold detachment of the public concern because the guy had a foreign-sounding Muslim name and the preventive silencer the Jewish U.S. establishment. I think it's a much broader and now much more inherent flaw integrated into our attitudes in deaths of those in foreign lands.

We've heard stories and will continue to see them time to time from the media about the wars, confrontations, and unavoidable in such hostile military environment, deaths of all the soldiers and civilians alike in the territories of Middle East, including Iraq, and Afghanistan. I observe from aside the initial casualities from the beginning of the war, we're is getting less and less often that we read of the many laments. I think it is not just the detachment of the non-battlion familiar public that's in need of arousal or lack of demoralizing sentiments, but it is the longevity of the war and indifference to the deaths altogether. It may be so as the casualties rise as the military action continues and exposure to the stories of those dead in and out of combat goes on, most of us seem to become indifferent and immune to heartfelt empathy with the grievances. There are more than 850,000 civilian deaths since the war on terrorism and many goes unpublished even though aware, you cannot hope to account for every single death in this state of war that's still faraway from the states, people get callous to these events.

With the House passing support and more funds to the Afgan War funds, we cannot but imagine when this will ever end. One of the most often heard questions in regards to foreign policy and events between discussions of teens and and college students is: "Why are we still on war with Iraq/Afghanistan?" It is regrettable, but even with the economic crisis going on for years now in the states, the Congress wants to keep sending the guns and soldiers over to the conflict zone. If we cannot hope the dissolve the critical problem and find a long-awaited conclusion to the war, we cannot but become indifferent to many undeserved death of those outside the borderline.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/opinion/27iht-edcohen.html?ref=opinion

http://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html

http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2010/07/ap_military_afghanistan_war_funding_072710/#

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–present)