A friend of mine pointed out that earlier this week the Pentagon released a classified document they'd previously withheld from people investigating the No Gun Ri massacre...not that this in any way mitigates the ugly and horrific actions of Cho Seung-hui, but my friend and I both wonder if it might have been a factor in setting him off...
And, as others, like Dependable Renegade, note, consider that 34 people killed is probably about average for Iraq (ok, actually about half an average day), anyway, the point of course isn't that the Blacksburg tragedy is ho-hum, but just the opposite: it's awful. And it's awful in Iraq, despite the ever more nonsensical denials from Team Bush.
Violence will not, and cannot, solve problems. It won't work on a personal level, it won't work on a national or global level. It's time we all realized this.
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