• …is why surgeons at Children’s Hospital in Washington, DC can perform the exceedingly complicated and risky task of separating biologically conjoined twins (source) but political and military leaders in Washington, DC cannot similarly separate the artificially conjoined war in Iraq and war on terror?

• …is why managers and players in Little League baseball can honorably concede and accept a game’s end before it has run its anticipated course (if, after 4 innings, one team has a lead of 10 runs or more) but managers and players in the war in Iraq cannot similarly concede and accept an honorable end to that conflict?

• …is how the media and the public can lavish so much attention on and interest in the privileged child of privileged parents (e.g., Suri Cruise) yet, in comparison, virtually ignore the plight of underprivileged children, growing numbers of whom lack health insurance (source) and other basic necessities?

• …is how two men in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, could recently be sentenced to six months in jail for “stealingâ€? discarded fruit and vegetables from a dumpster (source) while no criminal charges were brought last month against executives at Fannie Mae for manipulating company earnings, fraud, and possible perjury (source)?