Stat of the Day

I can't say that I really surprised by this:

But one can also find something equivalent to combat conditions on home soil. The death rate for African American men ages 20 to 34 in Philadelphia was 4.37 per 1,000 in 2002, 11 percent higher than among troops in Iraq. Slightly more than half the Philadelphia deaths were homicides.

Emphasis added.

More dangerous to be young and black in Philadelphia than to be in uniform in Iraq. I'm sure someone will try to blame George Bush for that too.

Read the whole article over at The Belmont Club