Blasts Hit Shiite Civilians, Killing More Than 110

Associated Press Writer ^ | Sep 30, 2005 | ALI AL-FATLAWI A P Writer

[Pro-Bush]

I think it is hard for any of us to answer that question. The Sunnis had control and abused it by tormenting Shiites and Kurds. If they get any influence, I'll bet it will be the limited. On the other hand, Shiites are the majority in Iran, and could end up exporting influence, law and religious practices to the new Iraq.

[McGavin999]

In December, there will be another election and the Iraqi people are going to put in a secular leader who will take the fight to the terrorists. They were much safer with Alawi in the driver's seat and they know it. I expect to see him back as PM of Iraq in December.

[RunningWolf]

Yes Alawi by far was the best thing they had going for them. I hope you are right that they figured that out. They should have got a clue when Alawi addressed Congress.

I hope we can hold it all together till then. I think we can. But when I see 50, a 100 civilians at a time die, it gives one pause.

Wolf

[Polybius]

Yes there are some good things happening over there. But when the world’s superpower cannot stop IRAQI citizens from being bombedkilled a few times a week it’s a bad serious problem.

And if America could put a man on the moon, how come America couldn't protect Jane Doe from being raped on the local college campus at 1:00 AM last night.......

Being a superpower does not equal having God-like powers.

It may be callous to say so but, in military terms, killing 110 civilians is a pin-prick and a sign of weakness on the part of the attacker.

It is the military equivalent putting a brick through the windshield of the parked car of the man that could beat the snot out of you and that you are too frightened to challenge directly.

A military superpower can annihilate any armored column or even an entire army rolling into Iraq from Syria or Iran but a superpower cannot stop pin-prick attacks that can be carried out by anybody at any time against any soft target of their own choosing.

There is one way to drastically reduce such attacks and that is to wage a Dirty War of almost genocidal proportions against the offending segments of society.

The Germans did that in World War II.

Oradour-sur-Glane

That, however, is not a job that the U.S. should have any part of.

Such a job is best left to the Iraqis themselves once they take over their own security.

[RunningWolf]

Polybius, I have said the exact same things you say here. In fact that is where I usually approach these issues from.

BTW thanks for the link to Oradour-sur-Glane. I was aware of that incident but had forgotten about it. It puts it all into a greater perspective.

Wolf