Its a grim week. Yesterday two bombs took the lives of 3 innocent bystanders in Boston who were out watching a running race and yesterday In Iraq a car bomb took the lives of over 30 people who were out shopping.
The Media has slanted towards Boston. Or rather the western media has. It is an atrocity but what dictates the level of news and what dictates whether one atrocity is worse than another.
In the UK we are used to home grown bombings courtesy of the IRA and the odd right wing lunatic, in the USA they aren't, or so we are led to believe. What about Timothy McVeigh or the Una-bomber or the countless senseless high school shootings?
The interweb was quick to link the Boston bombs to terrorism and hence to forces outside of America's shore, but the signs are pointing to the quiet loner scenario.
It also didn't take long for 9/11 to be mentioned. It also didn't take long for Obama to condemn the killing of civilians. (He obviously hasn't read the tally of civilians killed by drone attacks) And with the same ineffectualness of attacking the gun lobby he will hunt for the perpetrators.
Britain will celebrate / mourn Thatcher tomorrow at great expense to the taxpayer and Kim Jong Odd will be wondering when he can launch bombs at the US without reprisal.
On another note Football hooliganism is returning to the UK (although we will never match the Egyptians for sheer violence, or body count)and Iran is hit by a massive earthquake.
Also interesting to note that it is a bumper year for Opium in Afghanistan.
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