Evolution

Based on our theory that Iraqis tend to lose interest in everything good or bad so fast, my friend and I were baffled by the fact that the cycle of violence has been on for unbearably long stretches of time.

Based on the same theory, I could not help noticing how people’s reactions have evolved. I have a friend who is always online to brief me on the latest incidents in Iraq, so that I don’t have to watch TV. Following what television reports described as “The Second Black Wednesday” i.e. the bombing of the shrines, my friend, honouring his role to keep me in the know, said some mosques have been torched in retaliation so far and a handful of nameless bodies were found and only recently our national Taekwondo team had their necks cold-bloodedly slit. Trying to snatch some bright sides off the jaws of calamity by comparing today with the first Black Wednesday, apart from the bodies, of course, and the poor players who might have thought that representing a bleeding country in international events could ease some of the pain was not good enough a reason to spare their lives, I said good news you know; no lynching, no mass killings, no severed heads by the hundreds, no storming into civilian homes and executing entire families, what more do we need. Mosques could be rebuilt and repainted, couldn’t they?

My friend was worried that hatred would prevail and it would be too late to forgive and forget. I told him not to worry, it is prevalent already and time heals all wounds.

To spice things up we chose to diss one of the turbans, who seems to have colluded with Al-Qaeda or whoever is lurking in the dark to slaughter as many of his followers as possible and who sounds like he cannot tell real life from that of video games. We both wondered is it possible for his followers to wake up and realize that he’s such loony and decide to act as responsible human beings who are controlled by nothing other than their own reason.

On second thought, I think they might, I might not live long enough to see that day, but I have seen everything , why can’t I see that!

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