With this horrifying news from Iraq – puts things back in perspective quickly. Of course, Arthur Chrenkoff has the other side of the story, but 125 killed is a big number.
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That gets reported. Of course this doesn’t.
richard’s post raises a very important consideration. What if the insurgents achieve their goal in becoming intolerable to the majority of Iraqis… but end up facing a trained military composed of democratically – inclined Iraqis, not merely traditional tribal vendettas?
The areas the terrorists/baathists operate in are really constricted when compared to their AO of even six months ago. And as richard’s link makes so clear the ability of the Iraqis themselves to employ force is ramping up quickly.
I believe that there will be a few more Fallujahs yet. We must find ourselves cheering the Iraqis just as much as we do our Army and Marines; they (the Iraqis) will make the decision in the end, anyway.
Bill Roggio has additional observations and links to reports on the situation in Syria and Lebanon. I wonder when Syria will cough up the rest of Saddam’s crew.
My prayers are with the victims and their families.
I see the same horror in their eyes I saw in the eyes of the people of Oklahoma city and NYC. The same horror we see in Israel and the Phillipines and Madrid.
I think that the new Iraqi government needs to be more proactive and less cocky. This will take some time and we must all hope and pray this is not repeated.
That horrific bombing was a terrible occurence. Having said that, the response to the event has been instructive. I haven’t seen reports blaming the U.S. for not securing that area, and we haven’t seen anti-US demonstrations during the mourning. After the election it seems that the Iraqis realize that they must accept responsibility for the defense of their nascent freedoms, and that the US can be a valuable partner in their protection (and not some Great Satanic Overlord like the rhetoric of the mullahs in Iran or the loony left might portray)
Rumsfeld was excoriated in the press for saying that the killing will stop when the Iraqis get tired of getting killed and do something about it themselves, but the election and the reaction to this current tragedy suggest that his statement (which I poorly paraphrased) describes accurately what is now happening on the ground.