Just a small point here. Yesterday a car bomb was used in Bahgdad to kill 26 people, mostly children. That incident got some coverage on the nightly news in Maine, but when I looked through the main stories in the New York Times on line it was nowhere to be seen. Likewise, it was a relatively small item on the BBC and ITV websites. I am pretty sure that this story will not be followed up in any real manner.

Now, to me the killing and maiming of children is an obscenity in any language and there should be a lot more coverage than is the case. This is where I think that we in the West go wrong - when it isn't ours that are being slaughtered we tend to let the waves wash over it and forget it ever happened. No two minute silence for those babies or interviews with bereaved parents....

Rant over - just had to get that out.