Peace is Their Nemesis
Last night as I ate dinner in Baghdad, a suicide bomber walked into a mosque in Baquba and blew himself up. He murdered 28 people and seriously injured 35. There were no Americans present indicating that the man who committed this act of terror was not aiming to kill Americans. The deaths were not collateral damage in a war. They were murders. It seems someone simply wanted to hinder reconciliation and to prolong bloodshed and chaos in Iraq.
The Baquba mosque that became a grave for 28 people was the location of a meeting between the Shiite Mahdi Army militia and the Sunni insurgent group, the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution. They met there to find reconciliation, and for that they were murdered.
This desire to keep Iraq violent, to prevent meetings of peace and reconciliation – this is something that is impossible for my mind to grasp.
These men may hate Americans, but their arch-enemy is peace.
