This would be true, perhaps, if you, as so many do, leave Iraqis out of your calculation:
>More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq. There is a war at home raging every day, filling our trauma centers with so many wounded children that it sometimes makes Baghdad seem like a quiet city in Iowa.
Remember, the Iraqis are people too.
Update**
Every day in Philadelphia:
>BAGHDAD, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Iraqi police said on Sunday they had found 60 decomposed bodies dumped in thick grass in Baquba, north of Baghdad.
>There was no indication of how the 60 people had been killed, police said. Baquba is the capital of volatile Diyala province, where thousands of extra U.S. and Iraqi soldiers have been sent to stem growing violence.
When will Baghdad ever seem like a quiet city in Iowa? Although, I think the author made an unintentionally correct comparison between U.S. government policy at home and abroad. Much of the violent crime in this country, I presume, has to do with poverty levels that are unacceptable in the “richest country on Earth,” and are a result of failed domestic programs that do little to raise the economic status of millions of poor Americans. The “war on drugs” and the “war on poverty” have failed as badly as the “war on terror.”