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When does one stop looking?

Some might ask me, when does one stop talking (chatyping)?

As I type, I’m listening to the Brookings forum noted (in bold) in reference.

I’ve also seen more than I would have wished.  The new answer to “Do you see what I see?” — click through.

While I may suggest that Islam in Iraq has come to a rift in time, a place where the Sunni and Shiite communities may turn their backs on the future and race backward in civil war, or they may bond in their inherent sense of decency, dignity, and humanity and evict ISIS and wrestle with the host of issues that revolve around a habit of deep and mortal discrimination that lives primarily in the head suspended in the language and related mythos of the culture.

The future will unfold for others all around the Iraqi Islamic world (and similar), and it will wait for Iraqis to gather at this edge in time in preparation for making the crossing.

Reference

AP.  “Top Shia cleric Ali al-Sistani call for new government in Iraq: Press on PM Nouri al-Maliki to resign as offensive by Sunni militants rages on.”  CBC News, June 20, 2014.

Breitbart.  “ISIS’s Gruesome Iraq Propaganda Includes Severed Heads, Music Videos.”  June 19, 2014.

Brookings. “Iraq in Crisis: What Options Does Washington Have?”  (forum video, 1.5 hours), June 19, 2014.

Fassihi, Farnaz.  Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq.  Public Affairs, 2008.

McClam, Erin.  “‘More Extreme than Al Qaeda’?  How ISIS Compares to Other Terror Groups.”  NBC News, June 20, 2014.

O’Hanlon, Michael.  “Iraq needs a new team at the top: Column.”  USA Today, June 16, 2014.

War Porn – Not “Work Safe”

ISIS.  “Criminality Daash with the general Muslim elders and children .. ..!!”  Firing Squad.  YouTube, June 20, 2014.  Encountered by BackChannels on Facebook and on Twitter, June 20,2014.

Relay from Brookings. “Iraq in Crisis: What Options Does Washington Have?”  (forum video, 1.5 hours), June 19, 2014.

Brookings Events regularly delivers conference and forum webcasts and after-the-fact videos from the same.

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