Posted 9:21 AM by Paul
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Sitting on the sofa in the post Christmas hiatus in front of an open fire with the kids playing dolly gmes on the carpet, it is impossible to take in the magnitude of what has happened in Southern Iran. Estimates have now been raised to 47,000 dead. All in a few seconds. That's about the number of people killed by bombing in London in the whole of World War II or nearly as high as American casualties in Vietnam. By the time most of the rescue teams arrived from around the world it was too late. The main task was to bury the dead in mass graves before typhus and cholera took hold.

Who knows what the political fall out will be? Perhaps it will help us all understand our common humanity. It is harder to see a nation as part of the Axis of Evil when they are weeping over their dead children. Harder to see Americans as The Great Satan when they arrive distributing free medicine, no strings attached.