Saturday, December 23, 2006
'As the United States debates what to do ...'
After reading this story about brutal Sunni-Shiite fighting for control of Baghdad, President Bush is going to have to do a lot of explaining in order to convince me more troops in Iraq are necessary. Excerpt:
What side do you take in what amounts to competing ethnic-cleansing campaigns?
After reading this story about brutal Sunni-Shiite fighting for control of Baghdad, President Bush is going to have to do a lot of explaining in order to convince me more troops in Iraq are necessary. Excerpt:
For the first years of the war, Sunni militants were dominant, forcing Shiites out of neighborhoods and systematically killing bakers, barbers and trash collectors, who were often Shiites. But starting in February, after the bombing of a shrine in the city of Samarra, Shiite militias began to strike back, pushing west from their strongholds and redrawing the sectarian map of the capital, home to a quarter of Iraq’s population.
What side do you take in what amounts to competing ethnic-cleansing campaigns?
