It's the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center and hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Bush, Rumsfeld and crew held a "somber" ceremony at Ground Zero this morning, lamenting the 3,000 American deaths from the attacks. And these deaths surely should be remembered, but no national tragedy can justify the violence we have returned in kind.
Why aren't our elected officials, and the presidential candidates, and the mainstream media mentioning the more than 20,000 Afghan deaths and the more than 1.2 million Iraqi deaths in the wake of the comparatively minor suffering we've endured on U.S. soil?
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