Heartbreaking

From Michael Yon, a blogger embedded with the U.S. military, in an interview that aired last night on MSNBC's "Rita Cosby: Live and Direct":

Well, I shot that photo on a day when a suicide or homicide car bomber ran into one of our Stryker vehicles, injured a couple of our soldiers, and, unfortunately, there were a lot of children who had crowded around to wave at our people. And the attackers had every opportunity to just wait a couple of blocks and attack our guys later, without the children being around, but instead chose to attack straight through the children. And Major Bieger, who is in the photo, found the little girl -- her name is Farah -- and decided he wanted to get her to the hospital as quickly as possible. And so he picked her up, wrapped her in a blanket, and loaded her into one of our
vehicles and started to take her to the hospital as fast as possible. And unfortunately, little Farah died en route.

We went back to that neighborhood the next day, and the people there actually welcomed us with open arms. They welcomed us into their homes. We got into a firefight there again the next day. And the people in that part of the city began to give us more and more information about the terrorists until it got to the point where -- it's very dangerous to be a terrorist now in Mosul.

When will it become apparent to the Muslim world that the Islamofascists have no agenda other than terror, misogyny, subjugation of "infidels" (which include just about everyone except them), and misery, in general? There are thousands of little stories like the one Michael Yon tells above that are occurring in Iraq. Hopefully, Iraqis will soon tire of the daily atrocities
committed against them by fellow Muslims. The question is: How long before the Sunnis see the insurgency as a dead-end (or a direct path to civil war, which they will lose)? Obviously, if the Sunnis come to believe that the ballot box is the best way to air grievances and resolve problems, the whole complexion on the ground changes. Al-Qaeda in Iraq cannot sustain a terror campaign against Iraqis without the support of the Sunni population.