A reader responds to the email from a soldier in Iraq:
I would ask your erstwhile military reader that if a car bomb in Detroit today killed five policemen, as happened today in Mosul; if the president was forced to declare a state of emergency in Dallas because 140 people were kidnapped and killed this month, as was the case in Basra; if a priest was gunned down in Washington D.C., as was the case today in Baghdad where a Shiite muazzin was killed; if the major of a Westminster, Md., was killed by a bomb hidden in his air conditioner, as was the case in a city 60 miles north of Baghdad today; if jittery police forces fired upon and killed two women, one of them pregnant, north of the capital – if all of these related events happened in the United States this day, May 31 – a day after another 54 were killed by a car bomb in Washington – do you think the news media would, or should, report that despite the violence, all was well in most of America?
The Dish 