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Yes, Ustwo, you are right to a great degree; it is just that your comment seemed a bit too sentimental in light of the situation. If we were to carry this further, we'd end up comparing the current safety of Pakistani neighbourhoods to our own. I don't see the point in comparing at any level.
Though you are right that we should be grateful that we don't have to go through what Pakistan is currently going through. I just don't see your reason for drawing a comparison of Western "politics" to this event. Maybe you'd care to elaborate.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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