Not in Our Front Yard!

All week our focus has been on the terrorist attack in Brussels.  With reason, people in Europe and here are horrified at another slaughter of the innocents.  Indiscriminate killing must be stopped, we say, especially in our western world where freedom is the order of the day.  I support the commitment, but something is missing.

Where is our outrage for the near daily reports of this same indiscriminate killing in other parts of the world?  In addition to our count-on-able acts of terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, they are taking place everywhere.

Turkey

Egypt

Ivory Coast

Bangladesh

Kenya

Pakistan

Tunisia

Libya

Nigeria

Etc., etc., etc.

These killings elicit a few lines in major news outlets and are rarely mentioned in our mass media.  We give 24/7 attention to trivia.  We give 0/7 attention to anything that doesn’t happen in our front yard.  There is something wrong with this picture.