The War at Home and on Terror

Since the start of the War on Terror there have been over 3000 deaths. That total is concentrated to one city and it isn't Baghdad. It's New York! Most of these deaths have been civilians. Over three quarters of the deaths have been considered "senseless" and in "vain." Too many have been on the innocents, including wives, former girlfriends, and children. We may not call that a war on terror, but the perpetrator's of these crimes sure walk and talk like terrorists using unconventional weapons and lurking in dark corners to ambush their prey. There's a parallel in their culture of death that is too close to the death squads that has been playing havoc on the world in a sick Jihad.

In the battle of mass destruction that started the war, terrorists killed as many as 2000 people in New York City alone by crashing American passenger airliners into the World Trade Center. The numbers have an insane effect about them. And when you take the total of deaths of citizens and soldiers in the country of Iraq and the murder rate in the United States in the same time period, you get an eerily similar number. So why focus on the body count? Because it distracts us from the true mission- There's a war going on and somewhere between the lines of "how well" or "how awful" it is going, the truth is somewhere in between the extremes. However new data, evidence and translations are coming to light about the enemy and the close knit ties to Iraq. Cool heads prevail. Hot heads and intelligence are oxymorons.
The last that I heard is that there have not been too many recruiters who have sold The Middle East as a popular tourist destination. Most recruiters, to be sure, tell of the significant safety hazards it takes to become a soldier. If I am wrong about this I would be shocked to hear that a recruiter would not divulge that information and also that a recruit wouldn't sign up thinking that someone in the course of the next few years might not take a few gun shots at him-or her. Please forgive me if that sounds sarcastic, because truly I am not trying to be.