File under: Things to ponder

A thought for Americans to ponder:

Bombs go off in London July 7, and America watches. Bombs go off in London July 21, and America watches. Bombs go off in Baghdad everyday, but no one pays too much attention anymore.

I notice it myself. Even I have developed the habit of skimming stories about violence in Iraq, rather than reading all the details, like I used to. Has it become that normal? Two years after declaring victory in Iraq, the casualties mount, the war continues, and the Troops remain, but Americans have chosen to focus on other things; I dare not attempt to list them all, but the Michael Jackson trial and the missing Holloway girl in Aruba are good examples of stories which have pre-empted attention from events with much farther-reaching consequences.

These stories(MJ and Aruba) are significant in their own right, but they are used as distractions, particularly on "TV News," which is essentially an oxymoron. They are distractions from the events in Iraq and Afghanistan, and from cases such as the investigation of special prosecuter Patrick Fitzgerald into the White House CIA leak, which appears to lead to the upper levels of the current administration, and relates directly to the War in Iraq.

-J.A.H.
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