“Middle East Oil Exports Climb Back to Prewar Levels,” the Financial Times reported Wednesday in a headline that should be causing a media frenzy, if not riots. Think about what the headline means.

The livestream is off, but the firing squad isn’t. Nidal Hasan, the Army soldier who killed 13 fellow troops at Fort Hood in 2009, will still be shot to death by Army riflemen on December 3. “Death ...