"Iraqcivcas" by Hannah Fischer, Information Research Specialist- Knowledge Services Group - en:Congressional Research Service. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons.
What happened last night in Paris was an average night in Iraq for about 2 years.
Those two years were part of a hideous tapestry of violence that began with the American invasion of 2003 and isn't over yet. That's just Iraq.
Afghanistan - quasi-legal invasion and incompetent occupation by white Christian armies
Libya - quasi-legal bombing campaign (begun with some really adolescent enthusiasm by France and subsequently conducted by rogue elements in NATO) that resulted in anarchy and destruction of society, which is apparently of interest to nobody, including France
Syria - Oh, God
Mali - see Libya
Egypt - it's so nice to have our vicious autocratic kleptocracy back on our side
Palestine and the occupied territories - "sorry?"
Last night in Paris didn't come out of nowhere. There's more than one monster rampaging in the Middle East.
