[Marxism] Iraq in fragments

[Nasir Khan <naskha3@xxxxxxxxx>]

By Dahr Jamail | Foreign Policy In Focus

 “[W]hat lengths men will go in order to carry out, to their extreme
limit, the rites of a collective self-worship which fills them with a
sense of righteousness and complacent satisfaction in the midst of the
most shocking injustices and crimes.”
-Love and Living, by Thomas Merton

On Wednesday, March 25, Major General David Perkins of the U.S.
military, referring to how often the U.S. military was being attacked
in Iraq, told reporters in Baghdad, “Attacks are at their lowest since
August 2003.” Perkins added, “There were 1,250 attacks a week at the
height of the violence; now sometimes there are less than 100 a week.”

While his rhetoric made headlines in some U.S. mainstream media
outlets, it was little consolation for the families of 28 Iraqis
killed in attacks across Iraq the following day. Nor did it bring
solace to the relatives of the 27 Iraqis slain in a March 23 suicide
attack, or those who survived a bomb attack at a bus terminal in
Baghdad on the same day that killed nine Iraqis.

Full article:  http://sudhan.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/iraq-in-fragments/

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