The news from Iraq is better is some aspects, such as a report showing that major attacks are nearly halved from a month ago, but the Shiite on Shiite violence that we wrote about the other day, seems to be getting worse by the day.
As political infighting deepens nationwide, the US military fight against insurgents rages. On Saturday, five Americans were killed south of Baghdad, four in one roadside bombings. Those deaths raise the number of US military personnel killed in Iraq to at least 3,690 since March 2003.
The widening split among Shiites parallels the national Iraqi political fissures. On Sunday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called for meetings to begin Monday with the country's main political leaders to fix the national political paralysis.
The jeopardy of our troops being in the middle of not just a civil war, but a series of civil wars has got to be troubling to us all. It is a shame that just as we are making progress militarily against the terrorists/insurgents, an old rivalry is being renewed, which can only spiral out of control, with killings and the reprisal killings which result.
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