With the loss of over 900 lives, it is yet another case where innocent civilians pay the price for the misguided strategic calculations of the political players. Indeed ever since the occupation of Iraq by the American forces in 2003, the MENA region has witnessed several occupations, civil wars, coups, and countless sectarian massacres and other acts of violence, as a result of which over a million civilians lost their lives. “Collateral damage” is the euphemism that often degrades the value of these lives,
substituted for the outright massacre. As turmoil has prevailed on a quite wide geography, the decade long-plight of the recent past may have exceeded any other decade in the region’s recent history in terms of the extensiveness of bloodshed. On the bright side, one may seek consolation with the few remaining experimentations with democracy.
