Car Bomb kills dozens

Jacob O'Laker
11:39
1/26/11
S. Sills
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/world/middleeast/21iraq.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes

Suicide car bombers staged an attack on Pilgims on their way to a religious Shrine in the city of Karbala killing at least 52 people and wouding over 150. These attacks have been happening annual, as annual as the pilgrimage itself, for the last 7 years. This type of cowardess terrorism is becoming more and more popular, unfortunately, and though it seems undignified will be marked as a Victory to the terrorists themselves. Of course no one claimed responsibilty to the attacks which reiterates the word cowardess.
However this religious war has been waging since long before the existance of the United States. Obviously beeing the soft hearted philanthropic country we are we take upon ourselves to send aid to the victims of such terrible crimes, and Im not saying that my heart doesnt go out to them, but this involvement brings the US further into the peripherals of the violent eye of religious persecution.
even more unfortunate is that there is an inability to stop such crimes. These cars were parked mockingly infront of a police station and even with hieghtened security went unnoticed. Though the pilgrims were devastated by the losses they experianced, some religious optimism shown through the rising smoke of the car bombs, a pilgim stated to the media that "I will be happy if I die while Im visiting my Imam." I guess, point being, they can bomb the people but they cant kill the faith.