Iraqi bishop says U.S. betrayed country, Christians suffer most

John L. Allen, Jr. writes at the National Catholic Reporter: “The United States has ‘betrayed its duty to bring peace and security’ to Iraq, according to Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni of Baghdad, in an interview on Friday with the Italian daily La Stampa. The Americans leave behind ‘an Iraq worse off than the one they found seven years ago,’ said Warduni, who’s widely regarded as the most charismatic voice among the Iraqi bishops . . .  Now there’s only rubble. We’ve become targets, we’re afraid to even leave the house. The situation is worse for everyone, but especially for us Christians. The withdrawal of the United States is a disastrous flight from responsibility, which will multiply the atrocities and increase the instability even more.