I can&#x27;t help but think of Susan Sontag&#x27;s book, &quot;Regarding the Pain of Others&quot;:<p>&#x27;A citizen of Sarajevo, a woman of impeccable adherence to the Yugoslav ideal, whom I met soon after arriving in the city the first time in April 1993, told me: &quot;In October 1991 I was here in my nice apartment in peaceful Sarajevo when the Serbs invaded Croatia, and I remember when the evening news showed footage of the destruction of Vukovar, just a couple of hundred miles away, I thought to myself, &#x27;Oh, how horrible,&#x27; and switched the channel. So how can I be indignant if someone in France or Italy or Germany sees the killing taking place here day after day on their vening news and says, &#x27;Oh, how horrible,&#x27; and looks for another program. It&#x27;s normal. It&#x27;s human.&quot;&#x27;<p>It really is a book that everyone should read. It seems to me that it becomes more relevant and important by the day.