I think we all feared this would happen.
The Shiites were oppressed for so long that some of 'em are finally taking care of business and righting some old wrongs.
I can't say I blame them either.
What goes around comes round.
I'm having trouble feeling very bad about this.
Payback's a bi*ch.
You see, the rationale of that statement is that people in society will form vigilente groups, and what the vigilente does is NOT controlled. The criminal has far more to fear from torqued off members of society, than from the police. But, historically the vigilente groups have 'punished' the wrong person, and having the 'criminal' torn limb from limb is not uncommon. So, the police exist to uphold the law, and protect the criminal.
Anything by the left-leaning Yahoo to discredit the elections in Iraq. This is unfortunate I suppose, but the Baathist are reaping what they sowed. Frankly these revenge killings are quite restrained in terms of numbers compared to what we might expect from a population who saw hundreds of thousands of their people murdered by Saddam's Baathists. Saddam created this society of violence. Naturally its effects will continue to echo in a lack of respect for life such as we're seeing in these vigilante killings.
But Yahoo and the US media doesn't want to talk about that, or the much greater and more frequest acts of violence by people they indirectly glorify by calling them "the Resistance" or "insurgents," while refusing to call them what they are: terrorists.
You mean Muslims are permitted to fight back against Islamist killers? I thought that only applied against infidels.
The blood letting begins. A lot more will need to flow before Iraq will be stable again.
If the Sunnis had stepped down gracefully, I might have some trouble with this. But with Sunnis continuing to kill innocent bystanders because they want to return to their old tyrannical ways, who can blame the Shiites for striking back?
Sooner or later they will need a rule of law. But that means both sides need to stop killing people, not just one of them.
At a conservative guess Saddam and his boys put 300,000 people into the ground. If one of them were a relative of mine I don't think I'd be full of the milk of human kindness either.
"It's the beginning, and we could go down the slippery slope very quickly,"
Or, with a little luck, the Shiites could kill all the Sunnis who fall into the bad-guy category and the world, or at least people like me, will go *shrug* they had it coming.
As soon as we're done with North Korea, Iran, Syria and maybe France we should get right on this problem.
And the Genie says to the American, What is your wish?
The American says, "I'll have a coke."
One hopes that the payback is not indiscriminate, but as long as it's not, civil war isn't a likely outcome. And the worry about that while US troops are there is unfounded.
In fact, it's a positive sign that the Shia are becoming convinced that the Baath Party is gone for good. A very good step in the long march to self governance.
Where's Kofi Annon when all this is going on? He should issue another edict...telling the Shiites to stop this as soon as possible.
This is horrible. We should give them a deadline to stop these killings, say 10 years, before we come after them.
They're killing the insurgents you mean.