Some Perspective

I saw in that L.A. times story that the 3 aid workers who were killed yesterday brought the yearly total to "two dozen", nearly twice the total of last year.

Over on the Times of London site, reading about Nicky Mason, I saw on the side a link to slideshow of teens murdered in London in 2008. There were 26 pictures in the show.

I know that the two statistics are barely comparable, but I think it still highlights a message that's worthy of repetition: relative to the amount of bloodshed and death we face in our everyday lives, the loss of life in GWoT-related activity is astoundingly low. It's a credit to our military, state, and nongovernmental organizations that the amount of casualties is so low.

Now, it might also say something about the state of London too. 26 teenagers murdered in a year? Sad, disturbing, and pathetic.