This is the kind of thing that took place under Saddam Hussein's reign. Although it wasn't reported to the world in real time.
News reports say 29 people have been massacred in Diyala in internal sectarian fighting. Other casualties are reported as the result of a car bomb in Baghdad across the street from the Iranian embassy. But car bombs in Baghdad are like traffic jams on the Los Angeles freeway system now. Commonplace. Almost expected.
Hussein was a despotic dictator. It's good that he's gone. But what's replaced him can hardly be called an improvement.
It seems the Iraqis, like the American-led coalition, are ill suited to enforce civil order. Perhaps Iraqis are incapable of living in a lawful environment unless under the thumb of a powerful supreme ruler.
If the U.S. remains, the killings will continue. If the U.S. leaves, the killings will continue. Killings in Iraq now are, sadly, a way of life.
2 comments:
Gaining freedom is not free. Democracy is more than a word, and takes more than the will of a few to determine the way in which it is practiced for the whole of a country. I suppose you have to decide what price you are prepared to pay for freedom. Sadly we have become almost immune to the numbers of deaths in Iraq in a day. The other day some 80 people died, and 200 were injured in the Kirkuk region, now that did cause an intake of breath!
I guess the question I would have to ask is - can people go from being ruled by a tyrannical despot to self rule/democracy within a few months when there is no culture of this within your society? Add into this that the concept of democracy is anathema to those radical islamics who only wish to see the imposition of Sharia law. Democracy is the enemy of the religious proponents of Islam. If we interpret the message we are getting from countries like Iran and Saudi Islam will not countenance anything that challenges its tenents and forges the population to THINK and make their own CHOICES. Maybe they want Iraq to go the same way they are.
Why is Boaz Frankel missusing his red hat and going from room to room invisable? .And going into rooms with the hat on intimidating people?
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