It’s difficult to pick up a newspaper and not read something about Iraq. It's become quite obvious that the media is overly focused on the war and keeping a warped win/loss percentage. Zarqawi death good, Guantanamo suicides bad. In contrast to such hype, only the Drudge Report highlighted this story: A Year in America: 16,912 murders; 92,837 rapes. And we thought it was bad every day in Iraq? Perhaps we need to focus more at home.
Of course you can get drawn back into Iraq quite easily by the general nuttiness of their murders. For example, a tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death because they were wearing shorts and exposing “forbidden flesh” in violation of Islamic law to some, and a 19-year-old was killed for selling ice because, as the murderers put it, there was no ice during the Prophet Mohammed’s time. Of course there were no AK47s, IEDs, suicide bombs and tennis shorts while Mohammed was alive either. Religion is a tricky thing in the wrong hands, eh?
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