US forces were reduced to near-impotent bystanders as the violence ignited by Thursday’s car bomb attacks on Shi’ite targets in Baghdad spawned a spiral of revenge.
After a series of attacks on Sunni mosques on Friday, insurgents in Diyala province were reported yesterday to have stormed two Shi’ite houses and murdered 21 men in front of their relatives. A suicide car bomber yesterday attacked a joint US-Iraqi checkpoint near Fallujah, killing three civilians and one American soldier.
This has been predicted for a long time by those who were honestly assessing this conflict. It is obvious that the Coalition troops are not going to be able to do a damn thing about this civil war.
There are no good options left. The only one that protects our troops involves getting them out of the middle of the carnage that is erupting around them.
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It just goes directly to their thighs.