The Iraqi “resistance"

The Economist article below gets something plain right: some of the killing in Iraq, such as the recent attacks against the Yazidi community (Angry Arab had a great post about them here), all too often gets ignored among the avalanche of death statistics. And there is an unfortunate and self-defeating confusion between supporting an armed resistance against the US occupation of Iraq and the apparently nihilistic killing of some groups that are engaging in simple ethnic cleansing. It's a distinction that needs to be made, stressed and repeated, and condemnation of such attacks needs to come swiftly.

The Iraqi “resistance” | When murder is just plain murder | Economist.com