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Wed Oct 5 13:42:35 BST 2005

Honestly?

1: Most Trauma-List subscribers -- and a breathtaking majority of the
loudmouths -- are Americans.

2: If the Bali bombings had occurred in Detroit, we'd be cranking out fifty
messages a day.  We'd have detailed timelines, links to interactive web
sites, blogs, analyses of policy and protocols, incessant expressions of
mutual sympathy, and countless tales of selflessness and heroism.

3: But they occurred in Bali, which most Yanks couldn't find on a globe if
it blinked, and whose newsworthiness is lately restricted to public areas
blowing up.  Oh, another bomb in Bali?  How frightful.  Is that six this
year?  Where's Bali?

4: The solutions to religious extremism are elusive to us, chiefly because
we have no familiarity with its causes.  Our own theocracy is just getting
started.

5: A frank and functional discussion of global terrorism will be thoroughly
unflattering to American foreign policy and global citizenship, and will
devolve into name-calling and pointless partisanship before you can say
"Pret's a Commie."

In short: apart from expressing our sympathy, nobody has the stomach for
detail.  We're not good at talking about things we're not good at, and when
it comes to dealing with terrorism, we're VERY not good at it.

Pret Bjorn, RN, etc.
Bangor, ME USA

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Anthony Horan [mailto:thoran at sarah.br] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 7:41 AM
To: Trauma & Critical Care mailing list
Subject: RE: Bali Bombings

David,

I don't think silence indicates a lack of sympathy for the families of the
dead, or a lack of humanity, nor a lack of respect for the efforts of the
rescuers. The real problem is we don't know what to do about it. How does
one fight a religious ideology, the idea of martyrdom, rewards in the after
life and so on? Especially so when we are led by a pseudoreligious nitwit of
our own.

Now that western nations have essentially given up on the neuclear program
of Iran, are powerless to do anything about it, and have squandered in Iraq
the moral high ground they held after 9/11, such bombings we have seen in
the resorts of Bali and Egypt, pale to insignificance next to the holocaust
planned by radical islamist once they achieve the ability. 

Tom

> ----------
> From: 	Fontana, David[SMTP:DFontana at phcn.vic.gov.au]
> Reply To: 	Trauma & Critical Care mailing list
> Sent: 	terça-feira, 4 de outubro de 2005 22:22
> To: 	trauma-list at trauma.org
> Subject: 	Bali Bombings
> 
> I note with interest the lack of discussion surrounding the recent
> repeat terror attacks on tourists and citizens of Bali.
> Are we disheartened, disinterested or overwhelmed? Normally an affront
> to humanity of this nature would draw some comment from the list; why
> not on this occasion? 
> After discussion with my colleagues, I offer our deepest sympathies to
> the victims and their families. And we further commend the efforts of
> the rescuers, medical staff and volunteers who aided the victims.
> We fear that this repeat attack will further damage the economy and
> livelihood of the Balinese people who depend so much on the tourist
> dollar for survival. 
>  
> David R Fontana RN
> Dip.App.Sci., B.Nsg(N.Ed).,PGrad.Dip.Adv.Clin.Nurs.(Melb.)
> Associate Nurse Manager
> Anaesthesia & Post Anaesthesia Care Unit
> Frankston Hospital
> Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
> 03 9784-7404
>  
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