sorry, the rants return

i forgot to address this point, a friend asked me why i care so much about all those dead kids in lebanon and iraq, but rarely rant on and on for the dead darfurians and other african victims of violence and general assholeishness. am i kind of racist? maybe i am. i just picture a western-styled kid, much like my own, with educated parents who love him and live in a nice house like my own western-type house, then suddenly a big ass bomb falls on that nice house and all his educated family is dead in one second. the neighbors don't come over to help because their educated families are dead too. does that happen to children in darfur? i'm sure it does. but for some reason it hits so close to home with me to compare what the people who lost everything in lebanon had before the fighting began with what would happen to me in a similar situation. everything makes me sad, but when i see somebody on the news who looks like me pulling a kid out of rubble that looks like my kid if he were dead, that just gets to me. racist or not, it makes me so angry that our stupid president who never had to pay a fucking bill in his life is mortgaing everybody's future on something so stupid and unjustified as the iraq war. (even though i was talking about lebanon, not iraq)