In another installment of doing my part to inform the Americn public of what is really going on in Iraq I quote this NYT report detailing another wave of bombings.
A pair of suicide bombers detonated explosive belts inside two Shiite mosques in the northern Kurdish town of Khanaqin today, collapsing the buildings and killing at least 70 people and wounding more than 100. The attack came as worshippers were gathering for Friday prayers.Earlier in the day,
two suicide truck bombs exploded outside a hotel in downtown Baghdad that houses many foreign journalists. Those blasts killed at least six Iraqis and injured more than 40, and reduced a neighboring apartment building to rubble.It's just not "soft" targets that bore the brunt of violene in Iraq today,
The well-organized assault at the Hamra Hotel, one of the most important and perhaps the most heavily populated expatriate center outside the fortified Green Zone, was the latest strike in a growing jihadist campaign against virtually all foreign presence here.
at least 50 insurgents carried out a coordinated attack on Thursday on American and Iraqi Army posts on the main road in the western provincial capital of Ramadi.See, once you really know what's going on in Iraq you'll agree that we're making progress and that our presence there really is making America safer. So if you're baffled as to how our presence in Iraq is making the U.S. safer, just read the news. I mean if we weren't there these bombings would be happening in cities across America.
It's hard to see how elections are going to make much difference given the level of sectarian violence taking place in Iraq. Elections staged by a government and occupying power that lack credibility stand very little chance in curbing the violence. Unfortunately it's long past the time that either we or the Iraqi "government" can call on the U.N. to step in and take over. We've accomplished little more than creating a failed state. It's going to take a lot of time and a lot of blood spilled before Iraq will be functional. Our actions over the past two years have done nothing to shorten that process and most likely have done much to make it bloodier and longer. Our policy is completely bankrupt. It was bankrupt from the start. Our failure to build a truly international coalition to effect regime change is bearing its bitter fruit. Our ability to positively influence world events is shattered and may never be repaired. It took nearly a generation for us to recover from Vietnam, it may take us even longer to recover from Iraq.
