Events like VT shooting happen everyday in Baghdad so why don't we care about what's going on Iraq?

Because people have become de-sensitized by the inhuman brutality that is occurring there. It is too horrifying to comprehend. People don't think they can do anything about it, other than vote for a different president. I say prayers for all sides in the conflict and hope that all parties concerned, particularly differing parties within Iraq, can come to some kind of compromise and work together. This ia a much more sane choice than trying to intimidate the other side into submission with horrifying bombings and the like. The thing is it's not working, they aren't pushing the other side into submission, they are only fueling more tit-for-tat horrific bombings. If everyday on Yahoo! News you read of a 100+ body count from someone walking a bomb into a crowded marketplace, you run out of energy to worry about it.

So, should we cease to be saddened by the deaths at Virginia Tech simply because we are not giving equal consideration to deaths that occur in literally every other country?

If Saddam were still in power, would you be pondering the question of how Americans could care so much about the VT shootings while a murderous dictator is killing people in a country we abandoned?

An untold number of people died in Bangladesh today from starvation. Are you as interested in them as you are the Iraqi deaths? I highly doubt it.

And so, you are impacted by deaths that relate to your ideological views. That is completely fine. Others are more impacted by deaths that hit close to home. That is fine as well.

Update:

You note that you have been deployed to Iraq. Certainly, then, that brings the tragedy home to you as well. My apologies if I made incorrect assumptions about your ideology. I have seen your same question used to ideological ends more often than I'd like.

People in Iraq need to reach out to each other. This is what Americans do when tragedy happens. In times of tragedy in the United States there is no racial barriers or ethnic questions it is a helping hand. We are not interested in religious backgrounds or church attendance, just the sadness that strikes our nation. People in Iraq could learn from this model. We try to solve the problems that come our way, not wait for someone else to do it for us.

Your question is too generalized? I live in Jamaica and i feel so sorry for the killings happening in the rest of the world.

Have you ever stop to think what the thousands of people in America that does not support the war in Iraq have to go through when persons like yourself class them as "Heart-less"?

because the war in Iraq has going been on for years. The VT shootings happened in one morning and killed people's friends and family cold and heartless without even a emotion from the shooter!

I agree 100 % . Although not a popular sentiment now . The Iraqi mothers cry as much as ours do. Joeseph Stalin said ! death is a tragedy but 1 000 000 deaths is a statistic .

What are you talking about? This is america and it's not supposed to happen in America! We have better security. better universities and we pay good money to send out kids to better schools. the killer was psychotic and mentally crazy and there were red flags..why did they not do anything about it? you cannot compare what it happening here to other countries? other countries have no order or no govt that even cares to make anything better....you are way off.

True it's sad what happens in other countries but charity begins at home don't you think?

do you want everyone to hold a vigil 24/7?

who says we don't care about the casualties over in iraq?

lives are expected to be lost in a war but we don't expect someone to go to a college and mow down 32 people....

Have you been watching the news for the past two years. everyday there has been news reports on iraq. Lets give iraq a break and report on something else.

It is normal to have stronger feelings toward something that's closer to you. It does not make it right, but that's how humans work. Would you feel the same if your mother or your third cousin died?