Reply #81: I'm almost a pacifist and believe in non-violence. But let me ask you the following question: [View All]

[struggle4progress]

If foreigners invaded your (California-sized) country, destroyed its infrastructure and priceless archaeological treasures, created millions of refugees, and after five years you still had only limited electricity and sanitation, how would you feel? If the damage to your society limited healthcare access and police services so much that there were more than a million extra deaths and regular acts of terrorism on the street? If the invaders tortured your fellow citizens and had granted immunity to mercenaries for any and all acts of violence? If the invaders were unable to account for billions of dollars of your country's revenues from a valuable natural resource, which was being loaded unmetered into foreign tankers?

Frankly, I don't know how I would react in such a situation. The disruption has apparently driven many Iraqis to such despair that they are willing to blow themselves up. Sure, it's petty to cheer when somebody hurls shoes at the President -- and it certainly raises some doubts about security preparations -- but perhaps in you were in that situation you might think there was a need for a more substantive response than "WRITING something extremely critical"