Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Friday, May 19, 2006
Anarchy
It wasn't bad enough that different religious groups were fighting in Iraq. Or even that different ethnic groups might be fighting. Now we have a further deterioration in the infighting within a religious group, the Shiites:
Al-Hayat also says that Shiite on Shiite violence in Basra,[the former peaceful area of Iraq] the second-largest city in Iraq, threatens an end to the phase in which it enjoyed relative calm. The representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Shaikh Muhammad Falak, accused the spiritual leader of the Virtue (Fadhila) Party, Ayatollah Muhammad al-Ya`qubi, of having declined to take any steps toward snuffing out the crisis in the city after the governor became the target of a failed assassination attempt. Falak emphasized that the Virtue Party has created secret prisons where it tortures captives, and has resorted to forcibly expelling others (Sunnis).
Iraq, as a society, is simply becoming untenable. Anyone who can is leaving. Those who can't are either fighting or cowering.

But they all have one thing in common. They hate the U.S. That is, everyone except the folks who depend on U.S. largesse and protection. That "helicopter moment" is getting closer all the time.
Written at 3:06 PM by Greyhair.
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