Delta15 From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 617 posts, RR: 5 Posted (11 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 580 times:
Just saw a little headline on the bottom of the screen on CNN that said 374 die in a passenger train wreck south of Cairo. Ive been flipping around the news stations and havent found anything about it so i figure i may of read the headline wrong, and if so i appologize. Can anyone confirm this or give me any details? Kinda upsetting that none of the us news agencies have any coverage of this, and its just clouded up with bush, Asia Etc. Thanks
Seb146 From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 9796 posts, RR: 17 Reply 2, posted (11 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 557 times:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/02/20/egypt.train/index.html The train was headed to Luxor when it caught fire 70KM south of Cairo.
EGGD From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2001, 12426 posts, RR: 41 Reply 3, posted (11 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 552 times:
Pretty highly covered here, but compared to a train Wreck in the UK where 16 fatalities happen and its a national disaster and the train system is unsafe dangerous etc etc..
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 76 Reply 6, posted (11 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 531 times:
And 374 died in one fell swoop.
What's your point?
I think his point might be the same as your point that you are conveying in this post.
"Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again"
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 76 Reply 8, posted (11 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 527 times:
Since when are people dying, no matter how many..."taken as red"? What kind of world do you live in?
"Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again"
777236ER From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (11 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 526 times:
KROC, do you see in-depth news reports everytime a person is shot? When a shopkeeper is shot in a robbery, is it in the news, local or otherwise, for more than half a day?
It's a sad truth, but people die, for various reasons, and a lot of us don't care.
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 76 Reply 11, posted (11 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 522 times:
Okay. Allot of us don't care. Just like allot of us might care more that 5 people will die by tonight in L.A. Shootings, more than they care about 374 dying in Cairo. I'm not trying to sound like a dick, but its true. L.A. is closer to home for me than Cairo, so I am inclined to agree with Rolex.
"Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again"
777236ER From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (11 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 519 times:
I agree to a point. Honestly, i don't think a lot of us can care about someone dying at the other side of the world. However, there's a limit. Just how 3000 people dying in New York affected me 3000 miles away, 374 people dying far away affects me too.
777236ER From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 16, posted (11 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 510 times:
KROC, I'd have to disagree. The nationalities involved didn't make the attacks horrendous. If all those killed were American, I'd still feel the same, just as if they were all French or all German.
Just because the news say "xxx people in the WTC were British" how does that make me feel different? I didn't know these people. They're as annonamous to me as the American's killed.
Twaneedsnohelp From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 17, posted (11 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 509 times:
of course donder10, the zionist media hates arabs, of course of coruse.
you really don't understand don't you. Have you thought how EXTRAORDINARILY different these two situations are.
374 is terrible, but what are the long and short term effects? Egypt buys better railroad cars. What about the 6 soldiers? Israel reinvades the west bank and all of a sudden 7 million people could find themself in the middle of a regional war.
So while 374 is tragic, and no one is happy it happened, the repercussions of this one fluke event on the world stage are minimal other than some Canadian company getting an order for new train cars.
The Israeli tragedy on the other hand could quickly lead to regional destabilization.
Twaneedsnohelp From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (11 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 506 times:
Also, I want to add that this catastrophe was horrible and when I first read the news reports on CNN I was shocked and saddened. I wish to extend my deepest condolences to all the Egyptian reading this as I did to my many Egyptian friends here at school.
This tragedy hurt me deeply as have the many other recent fluke trajedies in Lagos, Nigeria, and the fireworks explosion in Central America.
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