Comments on: Conditions on the Ground: What We Make of the Ongoing Violence in Iraq http://themoderatevoice.com/21410/conditions-on-the-ground-what-we-make-of-the-ongoing-violence-in-iraq/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: runasim http://themoderatevoice.com/21410/conditions-on-the-ground-what-we-make-of-the-ongoing-violence-in-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-150135 runasim Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:14:48 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/war/iraq/sectarian-violence/21410/conditions-on-the-ground-what-we-make-of-the-ongoing-violence-in-iraq/#comment-150135 In a way, it is shocking tp realize the degree to which we have become desenticized to violence in Iraq. It's something that will become imporatnt again, I think, as we begin to withdraw, because it will become politicized. <br><br>On the other hand, the violence in Iraq has to be seen in the context of similar incidents in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere. There is no truly safe or wholely peaceful corner in which to hide. Even in the US, we have school shootings, shootings in malls and in churches, not to mention criminal and gang violence. We are desenticized about those also: a few days in the news and we move on. <br><br>Violence in Iraq will continue to a greater or lesser degree for some time. In the end, the 'conditions on the ground' can only tell us so much, but not enough.to foretell what they mean for the future or what they indicate for us to do. In a way, it is shocking tp realize the degree to which we have become desenticized to violence in Iraq. It's something that will become imporatnt again, I think, as we begin to withdraw, because it will become politicized.

On the other hand, the violence in Iraq has to be seen in the context of similar incidents in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere. There is no truly safe or wholely peaceful corner in which to hide. Even in the US, we have school shootings, shootings in malls and in churches, not to mention criminal and gang violence. We are desenticized about those also: a few days in the news and we move on.

Violence in Iraq will continue to a greater or lesser degree for some time. In the end, the 'conditions on the ground' can only tell us so much, but not enough.to foretell what they mean for the future or what they indicate for us to do.

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