Iraq Tips Toward The Abyss -- Brett Stephens, Wall Street Journal
So far this year, some 7,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, but Americans don't seem to have noticed.
Fifty-four Iraqis were killed and another 70 injured Sunday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Baghdad cafe. But you probably didn't catch the news.
The tree falls in the forest, the country collapses in the desert, and the question remains the same: Does either of them make a sound if nobody can be bothered to listen? Iraq, where 4,488 Americans recently and bravely gave their lives, and over which Washington obsessed for two decades, has effectively ceased to exist for the purposes of U.S. politics. The show has been canceled; there will be no reruns. Barack Obama's Iraq achievement is that you are now free to think of suicide bombings in Baghdad as you might a mud slide in Pakistan or a cholera outbreak in Haiti: As a bad, but remote, fact.
Except there have been a lot of suicide bombings lately in Iraq. Consider just the past two months:
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My Comment: Because Americans are not being killed .... no one in the U.S. cares. But once the Jihadists who are causing mayhem in Iraq divert their focus to American targets in the Middle East and abroad .... expect all bets to then be off.
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