Where were you when it started?
February 23rd, 2006Well, looks like the Iraqi civil war has properly kicked off now. Three years of simmering insurgency and unrest, brought to the boil with one single act of terrorism. Over 100 dead in fighting (semmingly tired of killing policemen and foreigners, they’re now turning their attention to factory workers), Iraq’s highly sectarian alliances have broken off talks, and everyone’s laying into each other over who’s to blame. And it’s barely been a single day so far. It certainly puts the ongoing saga of the Mohammed cartoon furore (and the associated “clash of civilisations bullshit) into perspective now. The only civilisation under threat right now is Iraq’s, and it’s all thanks to the kind intervention of the Coalition of the Willing.