"The World in a Grave"

From The Times:

"WHEN Iraqi soldiers and police smashed their way into Mohammed al-Jabouri’s home on the first day of Baghdad’s latest security crackdown last week, he did not imagine they would steal the family’s life savings....

Later the same night, security forces raided a compound containing the homes of 110 university professors and their families. Professor Hameed al-Aathami described what happened: 'They dragged us out of our beds as we slept with our wives and children, took us outside, bound our hands and blindfolded us. They beat, cursed and insulted us'.”

Education is the firewall against extremism and fundamentalism, and I find it not so peculiar that, now, in that disaster Bush created, these are the exact people being targeted. Whatever hope there would be for a positive outcome is nothing but the echoing screams of these educators and their families in light of this intellectual pogrom.

Secular Democracy? I say that talking point is all but buried now.

UPDATE: Apropos, of course, is the fact that Al Quaeda is back with a little help from its friends (who by the by do have nukes) and, of course, President Numbnuts. Naturally, Pakistan denies it.