Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Thoughts on Vincent and the Insurgency

Over at National Review, Kathryun Jean Lopez seems to be implying that Steve Vincent was killed by people associated with the insurgency. Jim Henley suggests it may be Shiite police, who are, you know, technically our allies.
If true, this just shows how erroneous the "good guy, bad guy" model of Iraq is (that is, that we can easily divide the Iraqis into two camps, those who support the coalition and those who don't, and expect that everyone in each coalition will unite over their common goals there). Rather, it seems that there are myriad factions, each one looking to either subvert or suck-up to the current system depending on what gives them the advantage.
The same Iraqis we see as a bulwark against Baathist resurgence may be the ones slitting the throats of uppity journalists.

But - but - they want democracy and freedom! They had an election, didn't they?

That is all.

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