Sunday, July 02, 2006

Who's really responsible?

The International Herald Tribune reports: "At least 62 people were killed when a powerful car bomb ripped through a bustling street market in a Shiite slum in Baghdad, wounding nearly 120, police officials and witnesses said."

"Look at this chaos, look at this mess," said a militia leader who gave his name as Yahir Abu Ali, black prayer beads in one hand and a cigarette in the other. "You see these poor people? They've lost their means of living because of this."

Karim Nasser, a fruit merchant sweating in a beige robe, waved wildly at the twisted metal debris of his stall. "A truck filled with apples was trying to cross over the median when it exploded," he said. "I lost my stall. It was the only source of income for my family."

Who do you think these poor people blame for the daily death and misery. The ones making and exploding the bombs? Or the ones who invaded their country and thus gave rise to the one making and exploding the bombs?

Where does the blame truly lay?