People, are we so inured against feeling that we can pass over this lightly: Six burnt alive in fresh Iraqi brutality? Am I in company in feeling the way the media reports it is almost as nauseating as the acts themselves?
Shi’ite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left prayers yesterday and burnt them alive with kerosene in a savage new twist to the brutality shaking Baghdad. The attack in the Iraqi capital came after suspected Sunni insurgents killed more than 200 people in Baghdad's main Shiite district.
Contrast this to the face of the Iraqi girl in the photo and the peaceful river scene in the previous post on Iraq. Will she ever smile like this again? Has law and order so completely broken down? Where the hell are the Yanks? What are they doing? Who’s ordering the troops to stand back? Where are the new Iraqi authorities? Has America met its match in the sheer demonic frenzy of these crazies? Do you doubt that tht’s what we’re witnessing here – demonic insanity?
How to stop the slaughter?
The septic tanks have never been good at counter-insurgency, look at Vietnam and their abandonment of the policies and methods the Brits successfully used in Malaysia.
ReplyDeleteAden under Lt-Colonel 'Mad' Mitch (Colin Campbell Mitchell) and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was also successful until stopped by wimpy Denis Healey... guess the current press wouldn't like the summary execution of those found carrying arms either, but it works.
It's the old dilemma - what works and what's right. I lean to the former and yet that's also the argument for the current mvoe to militarization and ID cards.
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