SOMALIA REVISITED

[mburbank]

I'm sure by now most of you have read accounts of four American contractors being killed in Fallujah and their mutilated bodies being dragged through the streets.

My question is how do we still paint the violence in Iraq as being perpitrated by 'insurgents' 'Baath party loyalists' 'terrorists'? When a mob drags mtuilated bodies out of a car, ties them to automobiles ties them to bridges, parades the through the street, is it some small group of holdouts trying to stifle democracy? Or do the people of Fallujah really, really hate us, to a degree we can't even comprehend?

You can't occupy a place that hates you this much, you can't steer it toward democracy. This isn't greeting us with flowers. This is what comes from sewing the wind.