A Shia leader in Iraq who gets it

Urdu Times:

One of Iraq's most powerful Shia leaders, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, ruled out any dialogue on Friday with insurgents who, he said, had declared all out war on his community and "must be terminated". Sunni Islamists and their Baathist allies no longer seemed focused on battling US occupation or other political aims but on a sectarian fight to the death with Shias, the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) told Reuters at his fortified headquarters compound in Baghdad.

"The terrorist groups have revealed their purpose, which is creating sectarian strife, and stand in the way of the political process and building the new Iraq," Hakim said, a day after two waves of car bombs killed more than 30 people in mainly Shia neighbourhoods of the capital.

"What is new in these attacks is that they have started targeting the Shias openly and clearly," he said.

"These terrorists must be terminated."
As the CIA used to say in Vietnam, "Terminiated with extreme prejudice." I prefer the straight forward "destroyed." You have to not only destroy the terrorist, but destroy the fantasy that sustains them. In this case it is the fantasy, that a minority of a minority can defeat and oppress a substantial majority of Iraqis. That liberals do not want to fight for this objective says a lot about why they should never be trusted with national security issues.

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