Those who fail to remember Santayana are doomed to repeat him.

[lenora_rose]

I feel deep sympathy for the people of Poland, and for the Polish communities everywhere in the face of this tragedy.

However. Is it just me or is there just a bit of something wrong with this statement?

Andy Bukovski, vice-president of the southern Alberta branch of the Polish Canadian Congress, said it's difficult to express the shock and grief Calgary's Polish community is experiencing.

"It is shock. It is unbelievable. It is unthinkable," he said. "It is the biggest tragedy in the history of Poland and I believe it's the biggest tragedy in international history of any government, any nation."


(Quote from here)

Comments

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Uh. No.

[jeffheikkinen.livejournal.com]

...

I can think of three much worse things that happened to Poland in September 1939 alone.

[bow-bitch.livejournal.com]

Holy hyperbole, Batman...

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's kinda weird that I was even reading an article from Edmonton; it was the first one I happened upon about the crash. All the other quotes are normal reasonable sympathies and "we'll try to get through this together"; that one line stuck out like a sore thumb.

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right...

[eleanore-c.livejournal.com]

He was not the only president to die in office. JFK comes immediately to mind.

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

I could actually see how this would feel worse than JFK's assassination from the perspective of the people of Poland. But. As J/bowbitch said, hyperbole much?

In all honesty, of the tragedies in the news this week alone, the oil spill has me much more freaked.

[eleanore-c.livejournal.com]

The one on the Great Barrier Reef?