Hollow words on hallowed ground

As I was watching Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice express regrets to the tragic bombings in London yesterday, I was braced for an outrage. In no time, Rice delivered. Her 'condoleezences' of grief to the British rang empty with her stereotypical words of the hypocrite. Saying something like, "....these were just innocent people on their way to work," I dove for the TV remote, muttering profanities that unsettled my dogs. I pondered--like I always do at such utterances--if these bastards have any clue of the hypocrisy that drips from their tongues whenever they open their mouths? I concluded long ago from listening to our president, they do not.

Here's the Secretary of State bemoaning the loss of innocent lives in London while untold thousands of innocent Iraqi lives seem much less tragic and far, far less noteworthy. Ignored actually. And I wonder how many Americans without their sanctimonious soundblockers stuffed tightly in their ears hear what I hear and react as I react to such pronouncements? (Anyone ever broken a TV remote diving for it, or traumatized a pet into a cardio-pulmonary near death experience?)

As some outside observers have noted, the cultures of this world are built on fear. We fear everything, we fear everybody and all differences. It's pervasive, it's historic. I don't know, maybe its genetic? Taken to its ultimate as it so often is, we kill each other out of those fears. Like yesterday in London. More innocent victims. More hypocrisy laid bare.