Heart of Darkness

* US offensive in Euphrates region *
US marines in western Iraq launch a new offensive against what they say are al-Qaeda fighters.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4307572.stm

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The current U.S. attacks, presumably mainly on Sunni Iraqis, remind me of an image from Conrad's Heart of Darkness of a warship blindly firing shells into an African jungle. More recently we had the Viet Nam practice of our planes dumping their bombs in so-called "free fire zones" (i.e. ones not occupied by our troops) when a bombing mission had to be aborted by weather conditions such as an obscured target area).

Killing for the sake of killing will scarcely do the trick in Iraq -- and it is saddening to hear of the loss of our own as well as the blind slaughter of our (or should I say, Bush's) enemies.
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