So Steve Jobs gets +10 Nice Guy points for calling the family of the boy who was slain in Brooklyn recently. But then the Times of India gets +5 Huh? points for comparing this murder to the deaths of the Iraq War.
On Tuesday, Jobs telephoned Errol Rose, the father of the slain boy, after his staff obtained his telephone number from a newspaper reporter. He conveyed his sympathies to the family and told them he understood their pain. Rose appreciated his concern, but even in his grief over his deceased son, he spared a thought for the killers and wondered about the direction American youth were taking.
That compares with an April report of about 200 attacks in Iraq in 2004, vs. a reported 22 in 2003.
US president George W Bush views says Iraq is a central front in the war on terrorism in part because the insurgency is led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has sworn allegiance to al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
