When any kind of politics fail, whether democracy, autocracy or military, the end results in the politics of humanity. This is a situation where it is a jungle rule or the rule of the might in which the power in the hand is what matters in exerting control over another. Power becomes a means to an end and this is what the present situation in Baghdad has reduced to.
Commuting from home to work and vice versa is a daily affair for all of us but a normal routine like this is becoming nightmarish for people in Baghdad. Assassinations, assaults, ambushes, kidnappings and beheadings have become a prominent feature of Baghdadi life. Even with the peace process and negotiations by the US and other countries, the normalcy of the daily life of an Iraqi seems to be turned upside down.
Today, it is not about the question of terrorists that only bothers the country, but the fear pertaining to this extends itself to the civil society also which can be seen submerging into the politics of the day. Keeping guns and other armed weapons for protection has now taken another perspective, that of for threatening and assaulting when there is a disagreement.
The Iraq war has left many lives terrorized and the rest of the Iraq’s population under the influence of human rights violations and other such stigmas. Iraqi insurgency has left many to believe that honesty and help are the vices today, the comeuppance of which one has to bear on one’s own terms. Today the situation has become a sardonic feature mocking at the humanitarian crisis which we cannot seem to heal.
The belligerence of the police, the terrorists and even the civilians of Iraq seems to speculate no end. It’s a constant war and of a single shade of red that is of blood.
