Iraq's Christians in severe crisis

Under Saddam--who saw his enemies as Shiites and Kurds, but who, as a secular Muslim, had no special animus against Christians--they were relatively safe. Now, under U.S.-sponsored "democratization," all hell has broken loose for years and it keeps raging, with the community near extinction. Friday sermons in mosques spark brutal rampages. Something similar could emerge in Syria if Assad--an Alawite with, again, no animus toward Christians--is toppled, as looks increasingly likely. The Obama administration is indifferent as it encourages both what it calls "democratization" and Islamic radicalism. Raymond Ibrahim gives the grim facts in an article that, in a different world, would be a red-letter clarion call in the New York Times.