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Today, a series of bombs went off in Iraq, killing and injuring hundreds – marking it as the deadliest attack in Iraq so far this year. Such an event ought to shock and call for action, if only in our hearts. Yet, it was not the top story in many newspapers. If the same number…

Four years ago, I wrote a brief reaction to a CNN news report about yet another deadly attack in Iraq. It was just one of many similar attacks since the 2003 invasion. At the time of publication in 2012, ISIS, as we know it today, did not exist. The continuous deterioration in Iraq (and later…