On Thursday, June 28, 2007, a large bomb followed by a barrage of gunfire and grenades killed five U.S. soldiers in the Rasheed district of Baghdad. Believed to be an attack by Sunni insurgents, the bombing brought the death toll for June up to 99, according to the Associated Press, making the past three months the deadliest since the beginning of the Iraq War in March 2003.
Despite the fact that U.S. forces are, at least in theory, in Iraq in order to promote peace, many critics of the war believe that the U.S. presence is actually causing problems to escalate in the already fractured Iraqi nation.
Elizabeth I witnessed her fair share of war during her reign, and she recognized that, in many cases, using war to try to promote peace can cause more problems than it solves. She said:
“I fear that in these lamentable inward wars more earnestness is bestowed to nourish civil hatred than in pacification of troubles.”
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