After Iraq attacks, calls for militias grow

This is what I like to hear! Iraqis want to stand up and fight for themselves! If the state can't protect me, then I'll protect me! You hear that, Sarah Brady? You hear that, Chuck Schumer? Sometimes, the state can't protect you. There are universal truths in this world, completely separate from politics, and laws, and any other artificial concept. These are the laws of nature. Each individual has the right, and responsibility to defend their own person. You could attempt to write it away with laws all you like, but when the blows are raining down on your head, you'll act out of self-preservation, the most powerful of human instincts. When the state can't adequately meet your protection needs, whether you live in Miami, Florida or war-torn Baghdad, you have a responsibility to meet it yourself. And this truth apparently isn't lost on the people of Iraq. It's too bad some people in this country just don't get it. I'd like to take Chuck Schumer and drop him off in a gang neighborhood in south central LA. The average police response time there is 45 minutes, if they arrive at all. Maybe then he'd understand.
Security can't be established from the top down. It must be from the bottom up. The people of Iraq are closer to the insurgents than the US or Iraqi governments. They're also closer to their own homes and neighborhoods. Perhaps citizen militias will be the answer we've been looking for.