"US respond in measured fashion"
For how long will this fooling and camouflaged management of Iraqi defence and protection of the stooges of US administration continue? The indiscriminate US fire this Friday on 'musallis' emerging out of a mosque at Nasaf, a town just outside Ramadi, definitely calls for a just punishment, but who will do this? The roguish action naturally invites more swoop on the occupying forces and their cohorts. If, in further attack, the marauders kill some army or dismantle some of their set-ups, they will be called 'terrorists', while those responsible for the 'terrorist act' on innocent Friday prayer goers will be named 'peace-keepers' --what a travesty!
What term would you use for these 'jehadis' -- renegades, terrorists or martyrs, in the western terminology? How long the harmless people of quiet disposition, how long the (poor) world conscience will suffer and tolerate such torture, hegemony and black-mailing? Perhaps the west will realise when their back will be to the wall?
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