You think the Iraqis are feeling empathy for California

A thousand homes have been lost, most of them insured. Hardly no lives have been lost. It is a natural event, not like what is happening in Iraq. Thousands upon thousands of homes have been destroyed along with little babies and their mothers and hundreds of thousands of other people that the USA has responsibility for. The California fires are indeed tragic but let's put them into a little perspective shall we. This is a daily occurance in Iraq and this Administration wants to do the same to Iran..How long can we as Americans tolerate this?

You, however, have no perspective whatsoever.

People like you make me quite ill.

And what a liar you would be if you pretended that the home of someone you love is worth the same as the home of a stranger. Now that's something that makes ME sick.

Rescue workers frequently have to take an hysterical newbie and sit the poor thing down and explain YOU CANNOT SAVE THE WORLD. YOU MUST NOT TRY. You do what you can. Not one bit more or you hurt yourself and others. Rescuers are always having to break into the homes of other rescuers who have gone insane with the burden they have put on themselves, taking in every dog or cat for miles, beyond their ability to care for them. My poor David was in such a place. It took ten years of patient, loving care for him to get over the trauma caused by a rescue worker whose dream had been to help every creature in need.

I can't help any Iraqi. I did what I could. It didn't work. I'm not going to waste two seconds on what I can't do. AND I WILL NOT NEGLECT THE PEOPLE IN FRONT OF ME BECAUSE I'M WHINING AND DITHERING ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT OF SIGHT. That's your choice. It isn't mine.

Come back when you can tell me about your trip to bring aid to Iraq. When you tell me you built houses there. When you can show pictures of the Iraqi child whose leg or arm or eye you paid to replace. Talk is the cheapest thing on earth. NOTHING you say about Iraqi suffering will help them. NOTHING.

So huff and puff to someone else. I'm not impressed.

i think the iraqi's have more pressing matters to attend to, when your home is a warzone, matters that do not affect you do not really register on you.

the fires to the war.

But the fires are happening right now and affect a lot of people including myself.

I'm still just as fiercely compassionate and sympathetic about what's happening in Iraq during the emergency in Southern California.

I just hope your post is not a thinly veiled attempt to say that the wildfires are not important.

because of Iraq? One cannot be outraged about Iraq/bush cabal/Iran/Afghanistan and have empathy for the citizens of California? Empathy and outrage are two different emotions you seem to be inferring are one and the same. It is like multi-tasking, one can be outraged about Iraq AND have empathy for those in California at the SAME time.

I mean, aside from being generally nice empathic people, I can't think why they'd give a fuck. They're kinda busy trying not to get shot or blown up right now - and starving makes it difficult to focus on anything but the war crimes going on in your neighborhood.

I feel sorry for my state and I don't really give a shit whether they have empathy for us in Ca or not! What is this some cheap shot at us here in CA, I'm getting sick of all the jabs. No one here is asking for anyone anywhere else to feel for us just knock off all the snarkiness! :mad:

I'm sure those in Darfur, the Congo, Burma, Tibet and hundreds of other places around the globe don't feel empathy either. But, personally, I find your lack of empathy revolting. And your trying to tie the fires in Californiia to Iraq, just dumb.

The outpouring of affection by European Jews towards Germans in the 1940s was similarly inspiring.