Why don’t we all look at the whale rescue like it really is for once, OK? Sure, the media jumped all over this story and made it a “national concern,” but the underlying fact is that those people helping the whales to survive were simply doing their jobs (the marine biologists) or just wanted to help because a part of their world was dying (the Eskimos). These weren’t a bunch of social workers or politicians out on the arctic ice flows.

With the population of these whales only in the thousands it’s about time the government of this and every nation woke up to the fact that once these creatures are gone, they are gone forever. Then all the excuses like “Why didn’t we do this” and “Why didn’t I do that” are useless.

As for all those starving Sudanese kids that were referred to in a Nov. 15 letter to the editor, I don’t see what good half a dozen chain saws, a military “crane” helicopter and two ice breaking ships would do for them. Let’s stop comparing things that are incomparable.

David Kluth

Graduate

Anthropology