the rix mix

Almost lost in the sickening carnage of the past few days:

"Gunmen killed a teacher as she was on her way to work at a girls' school in the mainly Sunni area of Khadra in western Baghdad, police said, adding that the teacher's driver was wounded in the drive-by shooting.

"Two mortar shells also landed on a primary school in the Sunni stronghold neighborhood of Dora in southern Baghdad, killing a woman waiting for her child and wounding eight students, police said."

Police said. It's like living in the Shenandoah Valley & expecting the police to protect you from the ravages of Sheridan's arsonists by day & the predations of Mosby's Raiders by night.