Pakistani volunteers rush an injured child to a hospital after an explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009. A car bomb has torn through a market popular with women in northwestern Pakistan, killing 86 people hours after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the country.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
I am not an expert on the culture, religious strife, economic and social environments in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq but every time I see pictures like this one and headlines of another bomb explosion that kills innocent people of these nations I think to myself, "Why aren't these people doing more to rid themselves of these murderers?"
In Iraq, why are they not ratting these murders out to the US military or doing away with them themselves? Maybe it's the religious Sunni vs Shiite issue in Iraq that precludes the needed cleansing, I don't know. In Afghanistan I realize it's a lot tougher than in Iraq as they really don't have a lot to work with and fight the Taliban. Pakistan is kinds of getting screwed because the US is driving the Taliban and Al Queda out of Afghanistan into Pakistan. Although the Pakistan government is trying to fight them, why aren't the people doing more to stop the innocent killing? The whole 'tribal' issue really complicates things as the fight for power is waged between them and the governments.
Maybe they are doing everything they can and I just don't see it or hear about it in the news. It just seems to me that if the same situation existed in this country (I know this a horrible comparison that is most likely invalid as the amount of resources the American people have is light years different but...), our population would rise up against these murderers and drive them out.
I just can not fathom the random killing of innocent human beings. Would this killing be reduced if we left? I think it might or at least it would then focus all of the attention to each other and they could maybe figure this shit out, let it settle.
Maybe what is needed is a civil war to sort this all out, let the people decide/fight it out. I know a civil war will mean the death of thousands of people but in the end civil wars usually sort themselves out once people get to their breaking points and want it to end. The current strategy if you can call it that will just go on and on as the fight for power continues. Is a long drawn out string of death better than a quick large death toll?
Who knows but I do know that the problems I have in my life are trivial.