Count your many blessings, brother, count your blessings. We have been graced what with the inalienable right to be fat, comfortable, air conditioned, perrier-ed up, with 500 cable channels and 17 brands of toilet paper. Count your blessings is all i'm saying, when lining this disaster up with the rest of the world.
These things sometimes happen for a deeper, instructive reason. It is what it is. New Yorkers did well. Take away something from it. Deeper.
This is why the TV show "Survivor" would be such a joke of a show in about 75% of the world. it's a legitimate perspective you don't want to hear. Fine. I'm thankful. That's all for now. :-)
I happen to agree with you, AIT, even if the majority here are going to be belligerent about your thoughtful expression. Far too many Americans are isolated, ignorant, and unsympathetic about anything outside of their own little world.