rivalries between countries. peal in comparison of two countries. suicide bombers attacked a church killing 78 people. 78 dead in a single attack. in southern afghanistan, the taliban ambushed a border check post that killed 11 police officers in the latest of a deadly series of massacres. a suicide car bomb and a double suicide bombing both at funerals in iraq take more than 100 lives in a single weekend. the news of these attacks getting all but lost amid the carnage unfolding in that nairobi shopping mall. whatever is going on between us and iran, between us and north korea, between any one country and any country sometimes seems down right solvable, resolvable at least.