For years certain greedy members of the United Nations bilked Iraqi's out of millions of dollars in food and other supplies through the corrupt Oil for Food program. These robber barons helped support a dictator who's regime ordered the execution of hundreds of thousands of people. People starved. People suffered. People were thrown into plastic shredders and raped repeatedly. All while certain UN members counted their profits.

Despite the existence of this gigantic scandal involving what is supposed to be the world's foremost humanitarian organization, the press is choosing to focus on an unfortunate, but isolated, incident of indiscretion by certain U.S. soldiers and their superior's probable efforts to cover it up.

Never mind that what the soldiers did to the Iraq prisoners pales in comparison to what Iraqi's in Fallujah did to U.S. contractors or what Saddam did to his own people. Never mind that Sudan is sponsoring genocide in its own country yet manages to retain its seat on the UN's human rights council.

None of that matters. What matters more than these other issues, apparently, is that a small portion of the U.S. forces stationed in Iraq made a terrible mistake. What happened to those Iraqi prisoners is unfortunate, but there are much more terrible things happening in the world even as we speak. Unfortunately, our media feels that the Iraqi prison abuse story trumps them all.

Is it any wonder that the U.S. hasn't won a decisive military victory since the advent of televised news?