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Last year:
...John Kerry was wrong when claiming (in an effort to undermine homefront morale in another war) that no one wants to be the last man to die for a mistake. In fact, al Qaeda will always have someone eager to prove him wrong.But what if I was wrong - and they do run out of willing men?
This is what we've been fighting in Iraq...
...not teenage girls with explosives strapped to them - but the people who would strap explosives to teenage girls.
According to Reuters:
Under interrogation in a police station later, she said an older woman had strapped the vest to her and told her to go near the entrance of a local school and await instructions from someone who would meet her there, police said.The AP story adds this bit of intel on the almost-"suicide" bomber:
Police in Baqouba, where the girl was caught Sunday, said she told them she was fitted with the explosives by female relatives of her husband, whom she married five months ago.The AP says she is "14 or 15" - the original MNF-I press release says 13.
If you're still reading this - congratulations. Whether she's a brainwashed "willing" participant or a completely witless victim, the people who did this to her didn't want to kill her or her other potential victims as much as they wanted to make you run away. They lost twice - this time.
But this isn't a first - there have been other times children have been used in this manner (UN report from 2007), and there have been other "suicide bombers" who've survived. This is what we (and by "we" I mean Iraqis and Americans in Iraq) have been fighting since 2003. While the war is won, it clearly isn't over. In part that's because for every man in Iraq who's willing to strap bombs on his 13 year old 'bride' (and there they are a distinct minority) there are still thousands of Americans ready to call him a "freedom fighter". That's been the topic of our ongoing series here.
