The Concentrated vs. The Defused:

As a result of the events of 9/11/01, some 3,000 innocent people lost their lives. The government and various charitable and aid organizations raised billions of dollars in response to the resultant needs, while G.W. Bush declared “war on terrorism.” Not to in any way diminish the horrors of that infamous day in world history, there was another redoubtable event of which the majority of us are altogether unaware (or seemingly unconcerned). On 11 September, 2001, approximately 33,000 children died of extreme poverty. What makes this figure all the more terrific, is that this was repeated on 12 September, 2001. In fact, from 9/11/01 to 9/11/06, approximately 43,725,000 children died as a result of extreme poverty. I find it interesting, to say the least, that the “born again” leader of a nation he (wrongly) construes as being “founded on Christian values” has yet to declare a “war on poverty” with anything resembling the zeal he’s mustered to battle an ideology that endangers his own political interests and archaic metaphysics.