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Monday, June 28, 2004

The View from Iraq #1

THE MESOPOTAMIAN
by Alaa
...Come rain, come tempest, descend fog and darkness, We Shall Overcome. The Devil is going to be defeated again, as usual, by the very evil of his machinations.

And the enemy is desperate, he is striking left and right, beheading, slaughtering, murdering; blind with the rage of the wounded dying beast. And we have seen them, Egyptians, Syrians, Palestinians, Jordanians, our “Brothers”, running amok in our streets, murdering our men, women and children, and for what? What are they trying to achieve? And the whole lot of lying hypocrites, shedding crocodile tears about the “Iraqi People”, it is they who should get out and shut up. That is the invasion and occupation that we want to be rid of.

But We Shall Overcome; have no doubt about that. This, more than anything else, I know with every fiber of my being. And praise be to Allah, and thank you America.

Salaam
A thoughtful and well balanced essay. Definitely worth a read.

I do in fact disagree with him on the issue of disbanding the Iraqi security forces. The view that this was a mistake has become the conventional wisdom among pundits. But the senior Shia leadership demanded that this be done, and since they represent the majority of Iraqis, failing to do so would have led to a severe political crisis.

When confronted of choices between security and political reform, it is always best to choose politcal reform. If the political problems cannot be solved, then the security issues will never be resolved. Just focusing on security is a certain way to cause the situation to spin down into chaos.
Posted by: Zayphar / 6/28/2004 09:04:00 AM
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