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jasencomstock:

csmonitor:

Grainy videos depict the violence that has killed at least 6,000 Syrians, but the prospects for international intervention appear dim. Is the world inured to the ubiquitous images?

I know I’m totally inured to images of violence. Maybe Israel can invade and liberate the fuck out of Syria?  Having spent most of my adulthood with American troops in Iraq, I think my attitude towards intervention is healthy.

As always:

Nobody wants violence in Sri Lanka, or Syria, or Myanmar, or anywhere. So, why does Gaza get so much more attention than those places? One: there’s a sense that the Israelis are enough like us, and concerned enough about our opinion of them that our opinion will matter, and..

Two, the main reason: because it is a point of dispute! We are outraged by mutilated bodies in Homs, but there’s no controversy or debate whether we should be outraged. Nothing will keep bomb-shattered child bodies on your mind like some Christianist asshole explaining to you how wrong and immoral you are to be upset on the massacred family’s behalf.

Short answer: I blame Santorum.