Falloujah Doom-Writing

The vultures are descending on Falloujah, and they're carrying reporter's notebooks.

Today's LA Times piece by Edmund Sanders (here) is a case in point. Sanders asks how there can be an election in 30 days, given the chaos of Falloujah, then he illustrates the point with tales of destroyed homes, broken infrastructure and heavy security restrictions on the population.

I'm sympathetic to the families who are returning to see their homes destroyed. Perhaps it would have been better for them to cooperate with the new Iraqi government instead of allowing and even supporting terrorist insurgents in their midst.

Sanders fails to point out a few things:

• No one was offering a Democratic election in Falloujah when Saddam Hussein was in power.
• In nearly all the rest of Iraq, none of his concerns apply, since 15 of the country's 18 provinces are stable.
• Perhaps rubble in the streets of Fallujah is better than beheaded bodies in the streets of Fallujah and blood-stained rape and torture chambers off the alleys of Fallujah.