those damned Iraqis
George Will
But it did not take three years of Zarqawi and terrorism and
sectarian violence to turn Iraqis into difficult raw material for
self-government. For that, give another devil his due: Saddam
Hussein’s truly atomizing tyranny and terror. On June 20, 2003, just
72 days after the fall of Baghdad, The Post reported this from Fallujah:
“Military engineers recently cleared garbage from a field in
Fallujah, resurfaced it with dirt and put up goal posts to create an
instant soccer field. A day later, the goal posts were stolen and all
the dirt had been scraped from the field. Garbage began to pile up
again.”
An Army captain asked, “What kind of people loot dirt?” There are
many answers to that question. Here is one: a kind of people who are
hard to help.