Nothing the fanatics could have done will so awaken the world's wrath. It is one thing to attack U.S. troops; it is quite another to blow up dozens of U.N. employees, who have come to aid the average suffering Iraqis. Their aim is not to weaken only the Americans, but to bring down any towers of progress that are being erected. If Al-Queda and like-minded groups are behind the terrorism, then they will be a force that the Baathist remnants (should they regroup) will have to contend with later. Is it that these jihadis really believe that the Iraqis want a Taliban-styled govenment? One where a woman had about as much worth as the family sheep--or where the common nickname for burqa-clad females is Blackheads? One where kites, radios, and television are prohibited?
If the Iraqis, themselves, do not take the inititive to combat these monsters, thean they deserve to become another Afghanistan, with all the horror that that entails.
