Throughout the was in Iraq one must have to wonder whether what we are doing is helping or punishing the Iraqi people. Recently a BBC article approached the topic of the mandatory curfews that were in place and how it makes thing even more difficult for the residents of certain city's to live their day to day lives.
In one city, Samarra, the 300k residents have had a curfew for only two weeks because of a bomb that killed 12 police officers. In this two week time frame hospitals are already reporting 3 infant deaths and 2 elderly deaths because they do not have the fuel to keep the incubators and other medical devices going. This is completely absurd! Terrorists kill 12 people so we step in and cause 5 more deaths because we are afraid they may kill more people. Things like this are happening everyday and who is it that is being punished, the Iraqi people not the terrorists.
You can't lock down a country for years and expect things to get better. The human spirit can and will be broken and the same people that you set out to help will snap and join the other side. Stop the war before more of them despise us.
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