The future of Iraq will not be settled by closely guarded meetings of leaders acceptable to U.S. authorities nor by paper ballots and purple fingers. It will be settled in the streets by militias armed with an apparently endless supply of weapons looted from the arms dumps we did not send enough troops to protect.
We call it an insurgency to delude ourselves that there is an effective government to "insurge" against, but it is really the opening stages of a civil war that will end in a breakup of Iraq and ethnic cleansing (which is already under way in the areas controlled by our allies the Kurds). Bloody hands not purple fingers.
Only when we come to terms with this reality will we mourn the last dead American and see the last helicopter lift off from the Green Zone.
-Ian Binnie, Des Moines.
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