For the last few months the focus has been on the tragedies and civil war that are taking place in Syria — especially the overflow of nearly 4 million refugees — and on the political turmoil taking place at this moment in Egypt and Libya.
Iraq, on the other hand, deserves immediate attention, as it experiences an ongoing bleeding — daily killings, kidnappings and bomb explosions — as a result of the sectarian divide and ethnic tensions which have become tragically a normal daily occurrence. While human losses might not be as often reported as what is taking place in Syria and to a lesser extent in Egypt, Iraq requires a refocusing of world attention.
