Regime Change

There’s been a spate of Westerner kidnappings in Iraq over the past few days, most recently of a German woman and her driver:

A German woman has been kidnapped in Iraq, according to reports from German state television. The Germany foreign minister has confirmed that a woman and her driver disappeared last Friday. The hostage takers have demanded that Berlin cease all dialogue with the government in Iraq.

I hope that Berlin does all it can to release the hostage, but I also hope this wakes people up in the US and Europe as to what we’re dealing with in Iraq if these insurgents get their regime in Iraq. Whether it be Saddam Lite or Mesopotamia Khalifate, I can think of few things more undemocratic, authoritarian, and evil, just when Bin Laden and his ilk are losing their base of support. Much is at stake.