The Killers We Should Really Worry About Are the Jihadis By Robert Tracinski

"The Virginia Tech massacre is legitimately a big news story, on the crime-and-natural-disaster beat. And I understand why those affected by this event cannot think of anything bigger and more important in their lives than the tragedy they have just suffered.
But something more is needed to explain why this story has completely dominated the national media (and even the global media) for two straight days, to the exclusion of everything else--while the president and Congress are in a showdown over funding for the War on Terrorism.
Keep in mind that this week we are already approaching the point at which the Pentagon is going to have to start diverting funds from other parts of its budget in order to keep paying for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, since the Democratic Congress has refused to pass a war funding bill that does not require the president to withdraw our troops from Iraq. In effect, Congress has already de-funded the War on Terrorism. That is the most important national news story of this week. Good luck trying to hear about it on the national news."

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