Imagine spending a fair amount of money buying cruise tickets so that you and your family can visit different places throughout the world. While visiting a museum in Tunisia you are enjoying yourselves but soon hear loud pops and bangs as an ISIS sleeper cell awakens and opens fire in the same building as you. It would be truly terrifying would it not? Sadly this is the exact situation tourists in the Bardo museum in Tunisia experienced, a few even had to hide through the chaos for hours on end.
The after tremors of this attack, which was not based on natives, but rather the tourists who help keep the lifeblood of Tunisia flowing. Tunisia relies heavily on tourism for much of its economy and a hit like this would and is causing some of that income to already shut off. Cruise companies have, for the time being, shut down all routes connecting to or porting in Tunisia due to their concern for its customers safety. 23 innocent foreign tourists lost their lives that day at the Bardo museum and only a fraction of them have actually been identified. One of the gunmen was said to have not been an extremist and that he had even just had coffee with his family the morning of this atrocity. It is shocking that someone seeming so unlikely to do this would help to cause the deaths of 23 innocent strangers.
Yes, this attack could help ISIS to cause disruption in Tunisia's government due to lack of funding but at what cost. How many innocent human lives must they sacrifice before they are finally happy with their handiwork. They have already gone far enough.
Tim Urbanski
good job! glad you figured it out!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is awful, and I probably would not have even heard about it if I hadn't seen it here. It really sucks that, in America, we have a lot of nonchalance about the tragedies that occur in the other parts of the world.
ReplyDeleteGood article Tim! I'm so surprised that I didn't hear about this sooner. I should really keep up with the news more. Also, I loved your title!
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