Will Iraqi's step up before their backs are against the wall?

Backs to the Wall, a metaphor whose origin is rooted in the battlefield. Where are the moderate Iraqi's or moderate Islamic movement for that matter?

Circa; 1900
Location; Battlefield WWI
First Recorded Usage; "Every position must be held to the last man; there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end." Field Marshal Haig's order to British troops on the Western Front, 12 April 1918

Meaning; Up against a tough situation with very little room to avoid the evitable

As of this writing, our relationship with France is a strained one. While we describe the French as allies, we also use such enduring terms as “cheese eating surrender monkeys”. In an effort to give the French their due and put one spike in this ugly description I offer this explanation of the term “back to the wall”. A French general describing that he will not surrender did use a similar term “as our backs to the wall” he described that we would not surrender to Wellington. The Old Guard dies but never surrenders." That was the defiant reply by one of Napoleon’s generals on June 18, 1815, to the Duke of Wellington’s demand for a French surrender at Waterloo. Then in 1918 General Haig of Great Britain used the term as a term to steady and provide resolve for his troops.

Our “war on terror” will pin someone’s back to the wall the question is whose back?

Hopelessness breeds contempt. In the Middle East this contempt should be more justly focused on the corrupt regimes, hedonistic royals and those that have squandered the oil revenue. The absence of a middle class and a religion that suppress sexual gratification until you a re worm-fodder has created the tempest that will erupt and is erupting across the breath of Arabia. Currently Osama Bin Laden, Al Sadr and other religious zealots have enraged the masses and leveraged their ire in our direction. We do have some culpability, but the real villain here is the same we have seen before. Post-depression Germany, Pre-Revolutionary Russia and other examples demonstrate how evil preys on hopelessness. Personifying the cause for all your ills provides a gateway, a corrupting pressure valve to funnel the dreams and energy of youth into misplaced violence.

Perhaps our reaction will not be sufficient until our BACKS ARE AGAINST THE WALL!