Where was the constant live coverage and media attention on our tvs? Where were governments like ours publicly condemning what happened? Why didn’t social media go into protest and havoc? I feel bad what happened today in Paris just as I feel bad as the US airforce striking that hospital in Afghanistan where dozens of innocent civilians and patients got killed, or the US drone strikes killing innocent civilians on a daily basis or the Saudis killing so far thousands of innocent Yemenis.
It’s no secret that Western and including these Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been carelessly funding fringe Syrian opposition groups since the beginnings of the Syrian conflict and top of that screwing that region for quite a long time. There were hardly any moderate rebels, most of them had an Islamist agenda. Why have these Arab and Western countries been intervening in Syria in the first place even prior to the rise of ISIS? So much time, effort, resources and money have been put into his removal and they failed. They have so far negatively contributed and they themselves indirectly contributed to the rise of ISIS. Similar things have occurred in the past and the West and but-hurt Arab countries have been back stabbed each time.
Whether the massacre happens in the US, Europe, Middle East or else where I don’t believe we should be selective on what we sympathise with most. The killing of innocent human beings regardless of their, nationality, race, religion, gender, age or location is just as sad and disappointing. So what if France is a first world country, so is Israel considered a first world country. It shouldn’t how rich, poor, ‘violent’, ‘peaceful’ or how democratic a country is, a massacre is just as bad as it is in France or elsewhere. Every now and then you hear about mass shootings in the US, they are considered an ally of Australia and guessing according to you they are considered in a ‘state of peace’ since there a western country. I don’t know what you are trying to get out. These killings and massacres can happen anywhere in the world and at any moment, and they are all of equal importance regardless of where they occur.
That analogy you put out works well for what you are trying to say, but obviously not what I am trying to say. I prefer you don’t speak for me, my ethnicity or religion is not relevant and if you insist I am interested in world issues and news as a whole. I usually don’t pick and choose what I care most about, I try my best give relevance to each world issue equally.
