NPR this morning spent a fair bit of time publicizing the 1,000th American death in Iraq. Typical for the counterculture media they tried to spin the cost of the war as falling mostly on the poor underclass. They had an expert who said explicitly that wasn’t true: the bottom 25% get weeded out by the army, the top 25% weed themselves out and the middle 50% are our soldiers. Doesn’t that sound like the middle class? Not to NPR. To NPR that’s the lower-middle and working class.
And what about those 1,000 deaths? On September 17, 1862 3.650 died in slightly more than twelve hours. On September 11, 2001 2,948 died in slightly more than one hour. Between March 19, 2003 and September 7, 2004 1,000 people have died.
Sorry kids, that’s a tragedy but it ain’t news.
What has happened to a United States which cannot bear less than one death every three days, and that in a righteous cause? What does it say about the future of our civilisation that we are not willing to fight for that future?
What would we do if Pearl Harbor (2,402 deaths) happened again today?
Never mind. It already did.