AROUND Baghdad, who is in the wrong? A sense of guilt has become remote. People are killed every day now, but each hour there is always a pretext to kill. A group of rebels decapitated Kim Sun-il, a Korean they had abducted. His body was left between Baghdad and Falujjah. The world decried the deed. But the rebels would say: "Yes, Kim was innocent, but what about the Republic of Korea?"

They would say that those in power in Seoul