対イラク武力行使

ＣＮＮを見てると、イラクの英雄的な警官の話を取り上げていた。
文字の記事で調べてみるとこれらしい。

１月３０日のイラク総選挙の際、自己犠牲的に自爆犯を捕まえて、人々を救った警官の話が評判になってるらしい。
イラクの国軍や警察の質も、相当に上がってきているらしい。
１月の総選挙以来、市民の雰囲気が着実に変わってきているというのだ。
こうなれば、イラクの国家再建は何とかなるのではないだろうかと期待させる。

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Fundamental change

But officials in Baghdad said ・・・・・・

A change of attitudes in Baghdad could make a crucial difference in the battle against the insurgency, and a buoyed sense of civic pride is already beginning to change the way the public treats the police, authorities say.

"They saw what we did for them in the election by providing safety, and now they understand this is their army and their sons," said Sgt. Haider Abudl Heidi, a National Guardsman wearing a flak jacket at a checkpoint in Baghdad.


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"It was a turning point," Capt. Muthana Latif said. "People saw that there weren't any Americans or foreigners there. Only policemen. The suicide bomber was just after Iraqis."

"Policemen did not have a role in this country," police Col. Katham Abbas Hamza said. "Now we are considered number one guardians of the country."



”Support waning for Iraq insurgents
Attitudes seen shifting since election”

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6924964/