The greatest story of our lifetime is happening right now, as we sit back and watch on tv. The images that have been flashed all over the internet, television screens, newspapers and magazines give us a sense of the devastation. We hear numbers like 155, 000 dead so far, with over 50,000 of them being children.
This isn't the current US oil/military push in Iraq and Afganistan i'm talking about. It's the tsunami caused by a 9.0 strength earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day 2004.
This is death and destruction on a massive scale that man had nothing to do with for once . With one swift move, the earth and its natural processes have shown us that it doesn't take wars over dwindling natural resources to cause massive death and destruction. As Colin Powell said, he's seen war, but nothing he's seen compares to the destruction wreaked by the tsunami of Boxing Day 2004.
This disaster has wiped out entire families and villages. Those left behind have not only lost loved ones, but have lost their homes and livelyhoods. Nature can wipe away any evidence of your existense in the blink of an eye without warning.
We are seeing nations and governments step up with what seems like huge amounts of aid. We are seeing and will continue to see a great outpouring of grief and shock from all parts of the world.
But the skeptic in me knows that the amounts given in aid will be dwarfed by the amount those same nations spend on their man made tools of destruction. If only the masses would look at it in this context, and demand more from their governments.
What a shame when death is a higher priority than life come budget time, and most of us don't even realize it.
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