Disarming militias.

Editor,

"Disarming militias" in Iraq provokes violence, is unachievable, and is unjustifiable. Local militias equate to self-determination, self-rule, and self-policing in Iraqi neighborhoods, towns, cities, clans, and tribes. The American ruling class has lost its war of aggression in Iraq and still assumes it is entitled to dictate who governs Iraq, who does business there, and how.