September 04, 2002
Whose Tragedy Is It Anyway?
This is a very great post by my friend, Farid:Some say every American is a Sept. 11 victim. Sue Mladenik doesn't buy it.This latest issue should answer the common question "Why 9/11 is so important?", "Why do people say that the world will never be the same again as they eat their fast food?".
Far from the scarred earth and public shrines, the Mladeniks had become a living link to a day that – the TV anchors promised – would Change America Forever. Sue hated it – hated not only the fact of her family's devastation, but its publicness. The way everybody suddenly seemed to know her. The way Jeff died daily on the covers of newspapers and magazines.
Let put it in context of the death and destruction that occurs on a daily basis. Put it in context of past events where a massive number of people have been killed. Of course 9/11 is big, but not as big as, say, the holocaust or Hiroshima. So why is it so important? I think what makes it different is that it happened to Americans. Mass media and American govt seem to manage it in a hyperbole way. I mean, look at what American govt had done after 9/11?
They (American govt) should see how they had managed other countries that made some of them did those kind of 'rebel'. Look at how they had managed to endure the slow disintegration of Bosnia. They had simply filed it, along with the events in Rwanda and Chechnya and Sierra Leone, under the rubric "Bad Things That Occur to People Who Are Not Americans." They should stop their arrogancies and stop dictating other countries to do their way, as we currently can see to Palestine and Iraq. This is strengthened by news on Detikcom and International Herald Tribune, that the world now see that U.S. policies played a significant role in that 9/11 attacks.
Posted at September 04, 2002 04:37 PM | World
