Nobody's Safe

This article is striking for a number of reasons. It's about a bombing in Karbala that killed at least 36 people, most of them women and children. After the bombing the crowd began to riot, even going so far as to shoot at ambulances and police, because of a feeling that the usually safe Karbala has been endangered by the exodus of violent insurgents from Baghdad following the surge. The prevailing feeling, which I mentioned yesterday, is summed up well in this quote:

In a phone interview Thafir al-Ani, a Sunni parliament member, said the security plan had little hope of success if it continued as a military force without a political solution.

One point of tragic irony is that apparently the average civilian is becoming enraged by their perception that they are left in danger while the powerful are protected, and yet, as we all saw with the bombing in the Green Zone the other day, nowhere is safe in Iraq.