State of Civil War

Another day in Baghdad:

In the deadliest attack on a sectarian enclave since the beginning of the Iraq war, suspected Sunni-Arab militants used three suicide car bombs and two mortar rounds on the capital's Shiite Sadr City slum to kill at least 150 people and wound 238 on Thursday, police said.

The Shiites responded almost immediately, firing 10 mortar rounds at the Abu Hanifa Sunni mosque in Azamiya, killing one person and wounding 14 people in an attack on the holiest Sunni shrine in Baghdad.

Despite what we're taught about Fort Sumter, civil wars don't spontaneously happen. They gradually expand with provocation after provocation until their existence is undeniable. Maybe when we look back, the bombing of the Golden Dome in Samarra will be seen as the Fort Sumter moment; in truth that was just another provocation. But that was 9 months ago, and most in our government are STILL denying that a state of civil war exists.

On this Thanksgiving, I'm thankful that most of the country is opening their eyes to this horror we helped unleash on what was the cradle of civilization. I'm hopeful that the rest of the country will finally understand this as well.