Just a reminder of the kind of evil that will prevail and spread if the United States retreats from Iraq:
Five-year-old Youssif is scarred for life, his once beautiful smile turned into a grotesquely disfigured face, the face of a horrifying act by masked men. They grabbed him on a January day outside his central Baghdad home, doused him with gas and set him ablaze.
It's an act incomprehensibly savage, even by Iraq's standards today.
That's not true. Al-Qaeda has made routine the practice of serving roasted Christian toddlers to their families on a tray of rice.
No one has been arrested and the motive remains unknown.
Incomprehensible? The motive remains unknown. Apparently the author has not studied much Islam:
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 220: Allah's Apostle said, "I have been made victorious with terror"
If you come upon them (infidels), deal so forcibly as to terrify those who would follow, that they may be warned. Make a severe example of them by terrorizing Allah's enemies.
-- Ishaq:326.
Koran, 8:57: If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember.
Perhaps journalists are ignorant of these verses, but the terrorists know them by heart.
In a war-ravaged city torn by sectarian violence and marked by acts of vengeance, this attack's apparent randomness stands out as an example of what life has become in a place where brutality even against young children is a constant.
They dumped gasoline, burned me, and ran, Youssif told CNN, pointing down the street with his scarred hands where his attackers fled.
As he sucked his thumb, he repeated, I was burning. He tried to put the flames out himself.
