Builders and Destroyers

'When asked what he thought of the Mahdi Army, his voice dropped precipitously and he nervously glanced around before answering: “This is their country, but everywhere you can find someone who will destroy his own country, his own house.”'

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/05/iraqis_despise_the_m.php

I sensed long ago that the builders were going to win in Iraq, and that the destroyers, despite the avalanche of pain and terror they have unleashed, would lose. And I was right. Soon men like the one quoted above will have the pleasure of watching those destroyers die or put in prison; and then continue with their building.