Monday, December 05, 2005

How much can these children love America?









Will these Iraqi children remember the day people were allowed to vote more than the day they lost their parents ?

Will they think of this was as a war on terror or a war of terror?

This war has transformed each of these children to a potential "Bin Ladin" when they grow up.

Can't Americans stop singing "we didn't start the fire" for just one day?

186 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:54 PM

    We have seen many of similar pics and we know that we will see more, but every time I look at one of them, it hurts.
    Al 3ayno tadma3 wal qalbo yabki.

    These pics explain why there are suicide bombers and how they become such.

    Reeto rsasah fi albak ya Bush o maa etla2ee 6abeeb 7awalek!
    2oloo amiiiiiin!

    Ya3teek el 3afyeh Mr.Fire.

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  2. Anonymous12:47 AM

    I was listening to NPR, and there was a NY writer who was describing something similar to these photos and said this is the recipet for a suicide bomber.

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  3. If you read my blog, especially the entries starting with Why is the U.S. in Iraq?, you would see that this American doesn't think the question applies. It isn't that "we didn't start the fire"; it's that Iraq was already run by a terrorist before the U.S. invaded and civilian casualties have dropped by a factor of at least five (and are still dropping) since. It's just that photographers can now snap away at the remaining carnage with far less fear for their lives.

    Nevertheless, your point is a good one. But in a sense this dilemma doesn't apply. I agree with your characterization: Iraqis get democracy in exchange for U.S. and Iraqi soldiers killing Al-Qaeda. But had America invaded with three times the force -- enough to suppress any "insurgency" -- the long-run shame of Iraqis may have generated the destructive impulses you fear.

    Al-Qaida would then have stayed away from Iraq and attacked elsewhere, rather than slowly eroding its strength through fighting in Iraq. Only a few years ago, Al-Queda planned to devastate Jordan with chemical attacks that would have killed tens of thousands. Last month's attack accomplished only a fraction of this carnage -- and the attackers were relatives of terrorist leaders, a sure sign that the noose is tightening. Imagine how much worse Al-Qaida's attacks would be around the world if the U.S. never invaded Iraq in the first place.

    Since the U.S. force is small, it can only succeed in establishing peace and democracy with active Iraqi participation, the Iraqis can take much pride in their accomplishments -- but as the world can see, the children are being attacked by the terrorists as a result of U.S. sensitivity to these matters.


    I expect neither excessive "love" nor hatred from Iraqis; both Americans and Iraqis are acting out of self-interest. I can hope the children who survive these horrors will have the opportunity to mature in a free society and thus may be free from the destructive impulses you fear. The children of the Holocaust do not dream of killing Germans.

    Do you have any better answers, Reega?

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  4. hareega, very touching post, thanks for sharring.

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  5. Anonymous2:09 AM

    Today Reega posts terrible pictures of Iraqis children in the aftermath of terror attacks. She asks!!!!

    Reega sarat SHE?

    HAZOLAT

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  6. vimto .. Alla y3afeek

    Sabri you're welcome

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  7. solomon2, i'm afraid i don't have any answers because i don't know what your questions are.

    If you meant al-qaeda's presence in Iraq, the fact that most Americans don't know is that nobody fought Isalmic fundimentalists more than Saddam did. He tortured them and killed them because they were just opposing his regime, just like he did to anyone standing against him. There has been no link between al qaeda and the IRaqi regime, and all what was reported about possible links have been so vague, if true at all. In fact, Al qaeda's best allies for many years has been the US governement in fighting the Soviets. Saddam never expressed any Islamic radical thoughts at all.

    The problem with politics is that it deals with the living people. It ignores the 100,000 civilians who were killed.

    If you asked the Iraqi people before the war ... would you be willing to have 100,000 people killed among you and civil war about to erupt and people attacked in mosques and you can be killed yourself anywhere in Iraq for no reason and foreign soldiers will be all over but not protecting you, would you still want the war? What answer would you expect?

    It's all blood for oil.

    I'll be happy to visit your blog once as soon as i have more time, thanx for visiting mine.

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  8. Really now, what does "blood for oil" have to do with it?

    If you asked the Iraqi people before the war ... would you be willing to have 100,000 people killed among you and civil war about to erupt...What answer would you expect?

    My guess is that some would still say "yes". But don't exaggerate: Iraq Body Count.

    However, I agree with your perception: the idea of terror attacks upon Iraqi civilians has less to do with disrupting Iraq's democracy than with discouraging democratic movements outside the country -- including Jordan, of course.

    As Iraq becomes a more difficult environment for terrorists, they must strike elsewhere, and Jordan is vulnerable as Zarqawi and his group are intimately familiar with the country. I suspect Al-Qaeda is turning its attention to terrorizing Muslim communities world-wide, while plotting more 9/11-style attacks upon the U.S. But their capacities are declining as the world chips away at them.

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  9. Solomon, maybe we'd better ask ourselves, what if america never invaded IRaq?? Would there be any al-qaeda member in Iraq?? No single al qaeda member or any radical would stay there, none of them can go to Syria because Syria itself, like Saddam's regime, have fought Isalmic radicals for ages and abused them and killed them withour trial. Jordan wouldn't accpet it and the gulf countries have suffered from them. Nothing allowed terrorists to flourish in Iraq more than the american occupation did.

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  10. Reega, my answer is at the "Why is the U.S. in Iraq" link I posted.

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