USA:Explosionen beim Boston-Marathon

[schlammtreiber]

Wenn ich Eure Beziehung mal kurz per Pony darstellen darf:

[gelöscht durch Administrator]

[schlammtreiber]

Den Herrn Walt wollte ich auch noch kurz zu Wort kommen lassen:


On the Boston Marathon attacks
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/16/on_the_boston_marathon_attacks

I do not know what I would say to any of the victims of yesterday's attack at the Boston Marathon -- to the families of the three people who have died or to those whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the blast. For them, this is simply a tragic moment of ill-fortune, to have been in the wrong place when some evildoer planted a senseless bomb. 

For the rest of us, however, there are already lessons to be drawn. For me, the most important thing to remember is that such events, however vivid, shocking, and tragic, do not in fact pose a mortal threat to our society and our freedoms, unless we let them. For as horrible as yesterday's events were, Americans are not in fact at greater risk than they were before. There have been numerous bombings and other forms of mass violence on American soil in the past, and there will be in the future. Yet the odds that any American will in fact be affected by terrorist violence of any sort remains astronomically small. And so long as future incidents do not involve weapons of mass destruction -- and especially nuclear weapons -- then their impact will be limited to a few unlucky individuals who tragically happen to caught in terrorism's web through no fault of their own.

Thus far, the response to this outrage has been encouraging.
(...)

[F_K]

... der Herr Walt formuliert halt etwas gefälliger als ich - die Schlußfolgerungen sind aber die gleichen.