 jatfla says: He points out that this was a real setback for Iran and it's influence there. I hope he is correct. And I hope that Pres. Obama does nothing (as Krauthammer adds) to undermine or reverse the progress that has been made there. Iraq can be a strategic ally and an economic boom-country in the region providing prosperity for its citizens and the world. News. Bad news. January 13, 2009: BAGHDAD — A female suicide bomber attacked a tent filled with women and children resting from a pilgrimage to a Shiite holy city south of Baghdad on Friday, killing 40 people and injuring 60 others, said officials. It was the deadliest attack in Iraq this year and the third straight day of bombings against Shiite pilgrims. Soooo...you would ignore the good news and focus on the bad? It's so much more convenient for your side of the propaganda-aisle. Our town has had a serial rapist, a bank robber, a murder, a spousal abuse, a predator lurking in our neighborhood, whatever.... This sounds tame to what this incident says. Do we deny that the culture of death/terror is dead? Duh! no. But is there huge progress being made? YES! I'm not seeking to minimize or erase sorrowful situations anywhere; just give some credence where it is due. We all can find incidences that fit our agenda. This was mine. I chose to clip something positive; you chose something different. :~( And yours is over a month old. ... |
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