More Regrettable Loss of Innocent Life
Once again, scores of civilians are dead because of a U.S. air strike:
Haditha: Inserting What the Right Leaves Out
Haditha has not been much in the news lately — at least not in this country — but today, John Hinderaker posts about a new development:
Another Day, Another Cease-Fire, Another Add-On to Death and Human Suffering
Followers of rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr agreed late Friday to allow Iraqi security forces to enter all of Baghdad’s Sadr City and to arrest anyone found with heavy weapons in a surprising capitulation that seemed likely to be hailed as a major victory for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki.
In return, Sadr’s Mahdi Army supporters won the Iraqi government’s agreement not to arrest Mahdi Army members without warrants, unless they were in possession of “medium and heavy weaponry.”
The agreement would end six weeks of fighting in the vast Shiite Muslim area that’s home to more than 2 million residents and would mark the first time that the area would be under government control since Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. On Friday, 15 people were killed and 112 were injured in fighting, officials at the neighborhoods two major hospitals said.
Fred Hiatt on Why Air Strikes Are Wrong in Somalia but Good in Iraq
It’s because air strikes in Somalia have caused unacceptable amounts of civilian casualties, have led to a refugee crisis, and have served as a recruiting tool for terrorists.
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