Once again African death is of no importance.
In Somalia they finally got it together enough to graduate a small class of University students. See the video of the graduation on YouTube
See the proud youth, surely the cream of the country, who in spite of the rotten conditions have managed to earn degrees in Medicine, Engineering, and IT. See them blown to bits on their graduation day.
And once again, this is of no interest to the American press. It is so much cheaper to cover who Tiger is schtuping. Who cares what Tiger does when he isn't playing golf?
We are told that it is imperative that we send 30,000 more of our youth to Afghanistan to battle international terrorism. But when Islamists bomb a graduation in Somalia, it isn't worth more than a squib. What makes any American, and Obama in particular, think that an Asian Islamist Terrorist is a threat but an African Islamist Terrorist is not worth talking about?
This is nothing new. We have been protecting the women of Afghanistan from the Taliban for how many years? But the women of Darfur? "Oh yes, them. Someday we really must do something about that situation."
This is nothing new, but it is frustrating. And if Middle Eastern Islamists are really a threat then we are going to be unpleasantly surprised one day when we learn that African Islamist Terrorists are also a threat.
In the mean time I just think of the mothers of those talented young jewels of their family. Jewels of so much promise. Blown to bits.