If anyone is surprised that there are terrible attacks and battles being waged between the Muslim sects in Iraq, you should have your head examined, and rethink your political and religious mirror imaging. Fact is, within Islam there is no peace so long as any other belief or system of thought exists. So called Moderate Muslims are even included in that frame of text, especially when you ask a Sunni Muslim about this concept.
The recent bombings in Baghdad do not surprise me. Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims have been at it for a very long time, killing each other, and trying to one-up the other with every new attack. So long as the Americans were present they weren't going to be able to be as overt or successfully achieve large-scale attacks. This includes the Sunni Al-Qa'ida in Iraq. Now that the US has pulled out, based on a flawed timeline not endorsed my military commanders (or at least not for the right reasons). The Iraqis have been capable of defending their country for some time now, but they are not willing to put forth a national loyalty over their religious loyalties. Don't get me wrong here, I too would not forgo my Christian faith over the loyalty of my country, but them I'm not part of an extreme belief system who's holy book pushes, neigh requires, the killing of all those who do not believe as I do.
No, the Iraqis could defend their country, but they have no country unless it falls strictly within the laws of their religion, which Iraq does not do for any of the Muslim sects in existence. What's most saddening, is that Iraq isn't the only place where this happens. Look through history and you will find that the entirety of the Middle East and most of the African continent fall prey to the same dogmatic religious conflict. They cannot be happy until everyone believes as they do. That is a big difference between Islam and Christianity. One most are to PC to call out. Islam cannot live peacefully with other beliefs, even the more loosely held Moderate Muslims. Whereas, Christianity, while having had its issues, battles and wars at times, has largely been able to do so among it's various denominations. I don't mean to make this about religion alone, but I thought this was important to point out.
Many died, and that is very sad. I pray for their families left behind to deal with that loss as well as the many more to come, and for the turmoil they are going to see and experience their country go through. And after all that being said, I close with this...now that we are out of Iraq, let's just stay out. It's a losing battle.
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