Last week, over a hundred people were massacred in Syria. Last weekend, forty were shot in Chicago, where at least ten are dead.
We hear a lot more about the dead Syrians than about the Chicago residents who were killed.
Some want to send American troops into Syria. No one mentions sending U.S. soldiers into Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, or any other American scene of similar slaughter.
Tens of thousand of Americans are violently murdered every year, mostly in the summer. No one in the culture of death cares about violent urban deaths. They find it much easier to worry endlessly about people dying. The farther away, the more they worry.
So, massacres in far-away Syria are more talked about than those nearby.
