She is not the enemy. Why are we there again?

Mays, an Iraqi Shi'ite girl, cries after a mortar shell which landed outside the family's home in a Najaf residential area and injured her uncle, August 18, 2004. The leader of a Shi'ite uprising in Iraq (news - web sites) agreed to leave a holy shrine encircled by U.S. Marines in Najaf, hours after the interim government threatened to storm it and drive out his fighters. (Ali Jasim/Reuters)