Now that the decades-long iron grip of Saddam Hussein's tyranny has been lifted from the throats of Iraqi muslims, they are free to practice their religion to the fullest extent of their faith. The result: the Iraqi people currently suffer under the iron grip of an even older dictatorship: fundamentalist islam.
Stories like the following are enough to make one weep from frustration. All that blood spilled, all those lives lost.. for this??
It's as if a surgeon operated without his glasses on, and as a result, became satisfied in removing only one of a patient's two gangrenous limbs, pronouncing the patient cured, even as the effects of that gangrene continue before his very eyes... if only the doctor had sufficient vision to see the full scope of the job before him.
The myopia of multi-culturalism and the blindness of political correctness have much to answer for, in Iraq, as the butcher's bill keeps growing more costly... and the solution harder to diagnose.
The pro-suffering/anti-war "peace" protestors whom we protest against, claim that the US is "occupying" Iraq. Oh how I wish that were literally true, for then it would be far less likely that we would allow stories such as the following to occur...
...where we learn that, of all things, reading the wrong newspaper in Baghdad can now get you killed:
... [Mohammed Shakir] used to offer a selection [of newspapers] from all of Iraq's political movements and parties - but no more. In his majority Sunni neighborhood that has proved simply too dangerous.
Two months ago a group of masked men showed up at his stall and ordered Shakir to stop selling papers printed by Shiite groups or government officials, saying that he would be killed if he did not comply.
"They even threatened people who buy these papers in the neighborhood," said Shakir, who took the threat seriously and closed down because most papers he carried dealt with Shiites and Shiite issues.
And it appears that these were not idle threats. Two paper sellers were killed in the last two months in Baghdad's Adhamiya neighborhood, a Sunni area.
Another three lost their lives in Dora, a district south of the capital that used to be mixed but is rapidly becoming purely Sunni.
Paper sellers say that no one dares to sell newspapers in these areas since they fell under the control of Sunni militants.
... And it is not just paper sellers and their customers who have been caught up in this latest form of sectarian violence sweeping the Iraqi capital.
Cafés with televisions have been threatened with bombing unless they stop showing Shiite stations. Several bookshops have also been burned down or targeted by bombers.
Continue reading "Iraq's newspaper war":
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Either we in the West simply give up--surrender--or we fight this war with the gloves off.
Those are the two choices.
All else is "sound and fury, signifying nothing".
We are all having a lot of trouble bringing ourselves to face the conclusion that we have failed to bring Democracy to Iraq. It's hard to believe it didn't work.
pastorius, it was never anything but an optimistic dream. In part to avoid confronting the brutal fact that we're going to have to wage a serious war which will cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
And in part to placate the left and the media (same thing?). "look, we're doing something about the islamonutters, avenging 9/11 but doing it in a caring, sensitive, culturally aware way".
All Iraq has achieved (and I was very pro-war) is to defer the butcher's bill.
Hundreds of thousands?
I fear it will be hundreds of millions.
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