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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
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Originally posted by Dreamer128:
For those of you that don't know, Srebrenica is comparable with 11 september, only alot more people died. But I guess your value as a person 'is' determined by your nationality, since absolutly no one outside Bosnia or the Netherlands has heard from it. Rather 1000 anonymous muslims dead then one citizen from the west. Its a sad world.
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If it makes you feel any better, only some Americans value American lives over a human life. Yes I put it that way, placing value on a human life based on nationality, or the like, is de-humanizing. IMO people who think like that are less than human, and have alot of learning to do. Death is the same whoever you are and where ever your from, it is DEATH.
Anyway, I respect the humility and the sense of responsibility displayed by the Dutch goverment, traits sorely lacking in many of my so-called leaders here in America.[/QUOTE]I'm not attacking just the Americans in this thread, but the topic seems to have changed to 'lets bash the US'. I'm just saying that people don't give a damn what is happingen on people at the other end of the globe unless it posses a thread for ourselves or becomes so big we can no longer ignore it. The Dutch goverment never send much support to Srebrenica even though they were to blaim. Instead, they choose to hide behind reports. The US goverment didn't do anything to help the people in Afghanistan escape the oppresion, even though they were to blaim for putting the Taliban into power in the first place. And there are numerous examples like this. Again, its not fair to only blaim to US for this. Especially since they have nothing to do with the topic of this thread. In fact, they even offered the Dutch troops at Srebrenica spy equipment to keep track of the Serbs.
[ 04-17-2002, 03:12 AM: Message edited by: Dreamer128 ]