Peace Like A River


It was a wide river, mistakable for a lake or even an ocean unless you'd been wading and knew its current. Somehow I'd crossed it... Now I saw the stream regrouped below, flowing on through what might've been vineyards, pastures, orhards... It flowed between and alongside the rivers of people; from here it was no more than a silver wire winding toward the city. - Leif Enger, Peace Like A River

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

And what were they doing there?

From Iran Focus:

Baghdad, May 17 – Three members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were arrested by police after a gun-battle in a northern Baghdad district, an Iraqi weekly wrote in its latest edition.

A statement had been distributed in the district of al-Azimiyah regarding the clashes and the subsequent arrests, the weekly al-Masar reported.

The three were arrested along with a number of other insurgents, the report added.

In March, United States Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld accused Tehran of sending elite members of the Revolutionary Guards into Iraq to cause harm to the future of that country.


We already are fighting against the Iranian regime.

2 Comments:

  • At Wed May 17, 02:20:00 PM, Anonymous said…

    been that way for some years now, depending on where you want to start. early 1980s anyone?
    in the raq, at least since before the invasion.

     
  • At Wed May 17, 02:25:00 PM, Jeff said…

    Absolutely. Our response to the Teheran hostage taking may have been the easy way out, and saved lives in the short term, but how might have things have been different if we had given a massive response right up front?

    How many enemies would have thought twice about hitting us in the years since, if they knew we were willing to respond with massive force?

    How many lives might have been saved in the long run?

     

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