We have turned Baghdad into a concrete maze of checkpoints and blast walls, the increasingly 'ethnically cleansed' neighborhoods are experiencing less dramatic devastation but the killings go on. The general population is tuning out both US and Iraqi government proclamations. The battle for hearts and minds languishes under the weight of trying to survive day to day.
This is what happens when you turn a country in to a battle field, this is what happens when we pronounce bombastically that we will fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here. The 'over there' realizes that they no longer have a say in the outcome or a stake in their future and all they can do is keep their heads down and hope they are not blown to bits or assassinated in a hospital, or internally exiled or shot for picking up a bright shiney object that, if worth something to somebody and sold, may feed them that day.
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