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The loss of Columbia and 9-11 were 2 very different tragedies. The tragedy of the Columbia was the loss of seven professionals loosing their lives doing their lifelong dream. The loss of 3000 folks at 9-11 was the slaughter of people in the work place by our foriegn enemies!

This thread seems to have split in three directions:

1. The media made a big deal out of Columbia "mourning" (and banked on it) and milked it for all its worth. Of course, Ann then came out and milked it a little more...there's a certain element of hyprocrisy inherent in this...anyway, the argument is well-taken; I'm sick of hearing about how we need to be consoled about everything. We don't. I was in 3rd grade when Challenger blew up. You know what I said? "Wow that must have been like a trillion dollars they lost!" (guess I was doomed to be a fiscal conservative for life, eh?) I'm ashamed to admit I didn't even think of the human loss at first. But why should you be impeached for that? Do we need government-mandated sensitivity training programs? Every time something nasty happens we all go and have a big candlelight vigil and we hold hands and we "heal". Bah. Gimme a break. Rather, give me a bottle of Jack Daniel's and a copy of _Man and God at Yale_.

2. The media did this somehow on purpose to distract our attention from Iraq. This, I don't agree with. They're just going for ratings. Period. You could argue that they ended the "weird mail truck guy" standoff coverage to hook you into watching Bush & Blair speak just as easily. This argument, I don't buy. #1, that I buy, and I buy #...

3. Random Coulter worship. She's pretty. Even if I don't normally go after older women. ;-) Has she had any work done?

I realize the difference between the two events (Columbia Shuttle/World Trade Center)

But a previous poster pointed out that 4 servicemen died in a crash of a Black-Hawk helicopter in Afghanistan with nary a yawn by the media. They too, died doing their job. (it's a VOLUNTEER military)

The Space Program MUST go on. The "ultimate weapon" in this millenium will be one fired from orbit. I want to give us every advantage so that the insignia on the weapons platform in orbit around the earth will be "USA" instead of a Red Star.

If I have to defend that position, then the world has gone truly "NUTS". Afterall, last I heard, Libya was the head of the Human Rights Committee at the United Nations (yuk-yuk)