The Belmont Club bloggers have spent much of the occupation excoriating those of us who have pointed out failures, setbacks or bad news. So it must be sobering that even Wretchard is now deeply concerned about the spiraling violence in Iraq. An Iraqi blogger explains the crisis:
The confusion and conflict between the Americans, the army and the Ministry of interior is
producing a situation where the citizens don’t know anymore whether the security personnel in the street are friends, enemies, terrorists or simply criminals and thieves. Everybody is wearing the same uniforms. Whole sections of the city have virtually fallen to gangs and terrorists, and this is specially true for the "Sunni" dominated neighborhoods. People and businesses are being robbed and the employees kidnapped en mass in broad daylight and with complete ease as though security forces are non-existent, although we see them everwhere.
Security everywhere and nowhere. The Hobbesian world Rumsfeld unleashed and refused to contain has yet to be reined in.
(Photo: AP.)
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