Fighting erupts in Baghdad after week of calmThe headline reads as if "fighting" has a mind and will of its own - "fighting" just spontaneoulsy erupted!
[Reuters, 6 Apr 2008]
That's not quite the way it happened. A more honest and revealing headline would read
U.S. & Iraqi Forces Provoke Violence in Sadr CityMoqtada al Sadr has been the rational player in this game - agreeing - at the behest of Iraqi Govt representatives - to a cease-fire. How do we - U.S. & our Iraqi allies - respond? By invading Sadr City, the Baghdad slum that is Moqtada's core constituency!
No - fighting did not spontaneously "erupt". We provoked it!
Stop the madness!
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