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More Iraq NewsDaily attacks on U.S. troops dropped to between 20 to 25 per day between June 28 and 30, defying intelligence reports that predicted a major rebel offensive timed to coincide with the announced June 30 handover date. Just the opposite happened. In a surprise move aimed at sidestepping the expected attacks, U.S. occupation chief L. Paul Bremer handed power to an Iraqi government on June 28 - two days early. Instead of a rebel offensive, Iraq won a few days of rare calm. Army Lt. Col. Daniel Baggio said he believed the insurgents' "decision cycle" had been upended by Bremer's unexpected handoff. The military is still exploring the reasons for the two-day lull. Since then, attacks have returned to their recent levels of 35 to 45 per day, the military said. Allawi drawing up possible amnesty plan for insurgets, even for those involved in killing US troops. This is neither unexpected nor particularly objectionable. As has been said before, when you endeavor to make peace, you compromise with those you had been at war with. You don't make "peace" with friends. This isn't the first time the interests of justice have conflicted with the interests of peace-- it happens every time we negotiate a safe-exit for a vicious tyrant in exchange for a peaceful transfer of power to those opposing him. If this results in fewer US troops dying in the future, it's a good deal. Yes, it would be better to kill every one of these sonsabitches. But at what point does our interest in justice become outweighed by our interest in seeing as many as possible of our boys come home alive, and as soon as possible as well? Our captured Marine has been beheaded. Horrible, of course. But there is a silver lining: this behavior is not shocking nor terrorizing us anymore. We have become resigned to the fact that when one of our people is captured by these butchers, he's already a dead man walking. These murders, while vicious and painful, are really little different in terms of pain than a soldier killed by a roadside bomb. And yet the nation doesn't fly into panic over a single roadside-bomb murder, and they shouldn't cover these murders, either. I hope no one reads that as indifference about these murders. I'm just stating that the terrorists are experiencing declining returns on their newest barbarities. Mookie al-Sadr is again urging violence against the "occupiers" of Iraq. Three strikes and you're out, pal. posted by Ace at 06:30 PM
CommentsIraqis are trying to bring to an end what amounts to a civil war. The idea of forgiveness is not all that alien to America as a way of handling the aftermath of a civil war. "With malice toward none, with charity toward all ..." A. Lincoln Posted by: Dean Douthat on July 4, 2004 11:37 AM
The writers of the Federalist Papers justified the Presidential pardon as having been provided as a tool for undermining insurrection. Pardoning criminals and letting them escape punishment is yet another type of injustice that I don't have a problem with when it's put to politically responsible use. But politically responsible use is relative to our needs, not Iraq's. The problem for us is that too early extension of amnesty by the Iraqi government to those who have killed American soldiers is too easily understood as a license to go on attacking our soldiers. If the Iraqi government is deficient in teeth, then we must put teeth in the amnesty by making it plain that we'll kill those who don't put down their weapons now and go home. We can only justify the injustice of amnesty if it weakens our opponents, not if it strengthens or emboldens them in any way. We should make this plain to the new government of Iraq and quietly explain to them what we have learned from Machiavelli: "The great can be made and unmade in a day." Posted by: Doug on July 5, 2004 12:36 AM
According to what I read at www.commandpost.com, the amnesty does NOT apply to those who have actually killed someone. It sounds like this is an attempt to split off the terrorist supporters and wanna-bes from the hard core cadres,which is a good idea for the Iraqi government. Posted by: BattleofthePyramids on July 5, 2004 02:37 AM
Now they're saying that the (presumably) abducted Marine is alive, and because he is a Muslim has been released to someplace safe in exchange for leaving the US armed forces. If this is true, I really hope he meets some of his former brothers-in-arms again someday. But who knows? They may only be saying that so they don't get a political black eye for killing a Muslim. Posted by: lauraw on July 5, 2004 10:03 PM
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