Tragedy of an American mind set

Now that "9/11" is over with and all the shows on tv are finished with thier mourning episodes of lost love ones and all the heroes among heroes among heroes stories have been told, I thought it would be a good time to put some things in perspective. Oprah said "2974 lives were lost on sept 11th " that seems like alot of lives but not really, for example, between 1914 and 1918 nine million lives were extinguished across the globe, not including innocent civilians, in what was called the Great War and what we now call WW1, that is a number i feel is worth mourning over, seeing all the wives on TV cry and their children looking devastated as we watched them on our networks got me thinking if this "tragedy" can make a whole nation despair i couldnt imagine what this country and all the others went through during the wars of the last 150 yrs!! WAKE UP AMERICA !! I am in awe of our arrogance, we sound like the only country who has suffred great loss. . My wife made a good point in that those in the towers were just going to work that day and their lives were taken not by choice meaning they weren't volunteers in some war, that is true, they didnt ask for it nor did they deserve it but i cant feel that bad if these families want to go on television and ball their eyes out and behind closed doors scream for revenge ( though i have no proof of that last statment i would do the same ). How many innocent Iraqis have lost their lives trying to go to work for the last 6yrs ? how many in Isreal have lost their lives getting on the bus for the last 20years ? We, America, are not the only ones on this planet so stop this nonsense it makes us look like idiots, no wonder half the world cant stand us. I cringe to think how easy post WW2 americans would crumble if we had to go through what regular citizens in the middle east or Africa have had to go through daily over the last 20 years. By going over seas and bombing somone else is not showing resolve, its showing fear, a fear of losing our football on sunday our big screen tv's, soccer mom stickers on the back of our mini vans, and our obssesion with hollywood, it can't get more superficial than that people. The real loss here, I believe, is the loss of ones "soul" to show how easy we would sell it that we would gladly sacrifice american lives and those of others to hold onto "material possesions" that seem, as of late, to define us as United State citizens. So lets honor ALL of the lives lost over the course of mans violent history and not just our own because we are way too young as a nation to act in such a manner to think we are the only ones who know of loss.