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The subheadline to today's top CNN story is "Seven Chinese men are latest kidnap victims." I don't begrudge the focus on the American soldiers at the top, but this shows a disregard for the proportion of different catastrophes which is dangerous in the way it shapes public opinion. Nowhere in the CNN story is there reference to the hundreds killed in Falluja, not all of whom could have been combatants. Yet the long-term stability of Iraq depends on our taking note of the latter and finding ways to prevent it from happening again.