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As a white American, I would rather walk through any black ghetto in any American city than walk through any Sunni or Shiite ghetto in Baghdad today.
If anyone disagrees, speak up. [/QUOTE
I can't speak for any other part of the country, but you do that in Chicago and you're a dead man either way. Now, I'm talking ghetto, not simply black community. You hit the projects, you're dead and right quick.
I don't doubt that for a minute. Same deal in Washington, DC. I think the explanation for it is the same as the explanation for Baghdad. It's because the authorities tolerate it. With all the money spent on urban police forces, do you honestly think they couldn't pacify those areas if they had the will to do so? If nothing else, they could send in white decoys and arrest anyone who attacks them. Why don't they do it? Because black "leaders" will have a fit if they do.
In Iraq, we have lost control of the situation by trying to play ball with murderous sectarian leaders who pretend to participate in the government. We disbanded the Iraqi army but for some reason we allow private militias, funded and armed by Iran, to flourish.