While we were all focused on Iraq...

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With all eyes on Iraq perhaps we need to be reminded that there have been a string of terrorist killings and mayhem elsewhere in the world. Daniel Pipes points out that In Pakistan alone, Muslim-on-Christian terror murders have spiraled out of control in the last twelve months:

• Oct. 28, 2001: an attack on St. Dominic's Church in Behawalpur kills 16.
• March 17, 2002: an attack on the Protestant International Church in Islamabad kills five (including two Americans).
• May 22: an attack on the executive secretary of Karachi Diocese of Church Pakistan, who was tied to a chair and injected with poison.
• Aug. 5: an attack on the Murree Christian School kills six.
• Aug. 9: an attack on the Christian Hospital in Taxila kills four.
• Sept. 25: an attack on the Institute for Peace and Justice, a Christian charity in Karachi, kills seven.

Then there is all the rest:

• The murder of a Marine in Kuwait, now linked to al Qaeda
• The recent explosion on the French oil tanker, now acknowledged to have been a terrorist act
• The bombing in a Helsinki shopping mall, now being called a terrorist act by the Finnish Prime Minister no less
• The 2 recent bombings of nightclubs in Bali, now suspected to be terrorist acts
• Then, of course, there is the sniper in Virginia.

By the way, am I the only one who has the creepy feeling that this lunatic gunman might be warming up for something even more barbaric? I mean, he's already claimed at least one victim in Washington DC and many others in Virginia.

Hel-looooo?

If and/or when the war in Iraq commences, will we be ready for a widening of the terror war in any (or all) these other places? I mean, how bad are we going to feel if all hell breaks loose somewhere else before, during, or after the war in Iraq commences?