Bending the Third Rail
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
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This comment from Mike Boettcher of MSNBC in his first post from Baghdad:
In the course of a few days, a one, two, three punch has been delivered.

First the Danish cartoon controversy. Next, the release of video allegedly showing British soldiers beating four Iraq's youths in Basra. Now, new Abu Ghraib pictures. If an American is left speechless by these images, imagine how Iraqi's feel.

U.S. military officials, with whom I have spoken, fear that these three events could combine to become a "perfect storm" producing catastrophic winds of Islamic discontent that will heighten the danger to Coalition troops in Iraq and draw the world nearer to the often talked about "War of Civilizations."

I said earlier that words were the most potent form of communication. I just changed my mind. It's pictures.
I think he's right. The dynamics in Iraq and the Islamic world just got racheted up a notch. Sure wish we didn't have soldiers in harms way who have to take the brunt of this.
Written at 2:01 PM by Greyhair.
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