Suicide Bomber Kills 102 in Baghdad

[Dinner]

With 1000 people dying a week now in Iraq's on going civil war almost entirely due to sectarian violence it is hard to see how 20k more soldiers can stop it. It is literally a drop in the bucket which will be swamped in a massive tidal wave of sectarian violence.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by TCO
I think we need someone to get into their heads more.

I've been thinking about this.

For the government to be accepted by the Iraqi people, it needs to be able to provide: (1) security; (2) national reconciliation; and (3) basic services.

The various militias, death squads, insurgencies -- by striking out with mindless, random acts of mass murder -- keep the government from achieving any of the three.

If this continues, the government must fall. Then these groups each hope to pick up the pieces. --But oh what revenge awaits them. If they'd have blown up my wife, my kids, my brothers and sisters, I'd never let these murdering scum take charge as long as I was alive.

France was able to end its Reign of Terror by bringing in Napolean as dictator because he was a war hero who'd been away from all the slaughter. But what possible future dictator do the Iraqis have?? Iraq will become the land of purpetual slaughter.

[Edan]

I think we need someone to get into their heads more.

Preferably with a projectile or a sharp instrument.