The regularity of devastation

In Iraq today, a truck bombing has killed "at least 500 people" according to CNN. Let's think about this for a second. At least 500 people are dead because of the continuing violence in Iraq. Nevertheless, with people I have spoken to, it seems to them so; normal. The entire nation was in tears and disbelief over the Virginia Tech massacre, yet, in Virginia that fateful morning, not even close to the amount of people died as do in Iraq almost every day. With the hope that people do not think I am attempting to desensitize what occurred at Virginia Tech, let’s look at the present circumstances rationally. We have been so desensitized by the continued death in Iraq that this has become normal! Thousands of Iraqi lives continue to be ruined based on a colossal error, and it is a fact of everyday life. I can think of few things that can be considered more demoralizing than the realization, that death on such an immense magnitude has been relegated to normality.