Halliburton

Seven Halliburton employees were among the those killed in the attacks in Mosul yesterday. That brings the number of Halliburton employees killed while in Iraq to 62. Presumably many of the 62 were killed before the election, but, for the life of me, I don't remember the mainstream media ever mentioning the fact that the company that they were busily ridiculing and holding up as a vicious war profiteer was losing, what, an employee a week to the terrorists?

The Halliburton smear was always an example of the media's lack of perspective on the difficulties of managing a huge enterprise under impossible circumstances 10,000 miles around the other side of the world, together with a lack of understanding of basic economics and a completely socialistic, knee-jerk aversion to the whole idea of making profits of any kind. Now, it appears, it was also a lack of basic human decency.

To the Halliburton employees lost, may the souls of the faithful departed and through the mercy of Christ rest in peace.