Should a Car Bomb Explosion Ever Be Considered Normal?

The picture you see here is the aftermath of a car bomb that went off last night in Iraq. It was one of 12 other car bombs that went off last night. Since Ramadhan began, shootings & bombings have spiked in the country.

For the war torn Iraq last night, 57 people have died and an additional 120 wake up wounded today.

It is unclear who was targeted, or even if this attack was sectarian. Although, at a Kurdish checkpoint on Friday, there was a shooting between Kurdish police and a militant group. The barrier was not over taken by the insurgents, but scars of sectarian violence are hard to alter.

The problem and main concern here is : Should a car bomb be considered a common daily event? Iraq was sought to become a strong & peaceful new democracy in the Middle East, in 2004 and as early as 1989. But the reality is, a country with so much diversity and violence needs a strong one-man show to keep order. That lion was Saddam Hussein. He kept Iran out, when the new regime of the Ayatollah Khomeini decided to invade the Chi'a part of Iraq. Saddam may have been ruthless, but there was order and peace in the streets. Sectarians and activists were too afraid to act viciously against one another.

Can this image of Saddam be replaced?

It is unclear in Iraq how these matters can be solved, as the country becomes more and more tolerant of chaos. A war torn Syria and power hungry Iran sit and eagarly watch across the Tigris and Euphrates.

Reported by Muammar Hassan