My thoughts keep going back to the explosions on Wednesday.

Two great big trucks carrying several bright red barrels filled with C4 reaching a very sensitive location without being detected. How?

My car is searched at least once every day.

Did the culprits do it for money? For political aims?

Or do they just enjoy killing innocent Iraqis?

Security is more than just setting up a checkpoint at the intersection, or an army patrol passing once a day.

Security is more than employing more and more young men who are not even trained properly and have no idea what they're doing.

Our security is fragile because it's built upon the wrong principles. It is built upon an accord between the political blocs. Once they fall out with each other – Boom!

And tens of families lose a loved one – or more. And many lose their homes 

Our security is fragile because the very people who are in power think of it as a tool to be used to forward their own interests. If they are happy – we have peace. If they are vexed – Boom!

And a young mother picks up her dead baby and speaks to her parent, "Look mom – He's smiling at me!"

How long will Iraqis be the victims of political ambitions in this way?  

Where are the demonstrations?

Why are they silent in this era of freedom of speech?

I believe Iraqis are just too weary.

Perhaps they have come to believe that it is all to no avail. That there is no peaceful outcome to this struggle, no hope for a better life.

So they will just try to get along, as they learned to do over decades of hardship. Feed their young as best as they could. Manage their affairs from day to day without having the energy to think about tomorrow or fancy words like "freedom" and "democracy".