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| Arabia | |
| Murder most foul | |
| 2005-07-16 | |
Thirty-two children, too young to understand the terrible cycle of violence that has plagued their country for the past several months, died without knowing what hit them. Many of them still held on to the chocolate bars distributed by American soldiers as part of their mission to win Iraqi "hearts and minds." What crime had these innocent souls committed? How could anyone in their right senses take the lives of those young smiling kids? What cause can justify the killing of children? This is no insurgency. This is pure murder at a massive scale. Insurgency or resistance seeks to hit government or pro-government targets as had been the case in Vietnam, Afghanistan and elsewhere. It distinguishes between those on its side and the opposite side. What is going on in Iraq defies all definition and categorisation. Men, women and children — anyone and everyone can be targeted at anytime. No one is safe. The so-called insurgents make no distinction between people on their side or those on the other side. By their mindless acts of terror, the insurgents have lost whatever sympathy they may have had in Iraq and elsewhere in Muslim world. Murder is not the best way to win hearts and minds. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |