I truly hope and pray that last week's suicide terrorist attack in Iraq, where an "insurgent" attacked a Humvee around which children were standing receiving candy, will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back. It would appear to me that there are many people in Iraq who, while they hated the old regime, don't like the current situation, and cannot think of the future are standing quietly by and allowing these attacks to happen. I cannot imagine that there are many people who don't know someone who is involved with the "insurgents" or knows someone who knows someone.
I could even understand if they said nothing when they were just attacking our troops, as wrong as it is, maybe they just wanted us to leave and thought this might help move us along. I can understand when they said nothing when they were blowing up new Iraqi police stations and training facilities, because they thought a thoroughly trained police force with the intent of carrying out just laws in a just manner was just too alien to their culture, and that the possibility of roundups, rapes and tortures of their friends and neighbors was really the best way to keep order, but I just cannot fathom the thought of these people standing by and letting little babies get murdered and not doing something about it.
I pray that this will be bring home to these people, that the insurgents are not freedom fighters, they are just murdering thugs who care nothing about who they hurt as long as they are hurting. Hopefully, this will lead to real cooperation from the average citizen of Iraq in finally getting rid of this blight on their bright future.
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