General Petraeus says help is on the way: if, by help, you mean six more months before we can draw another conclusion, which will undoubtedly mean a request for six more months to evaluate the status of the situation, during which a blue-ribbon committee of experts will be appointed to study the implementation of the recommendations of the...
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If they put as much effort into rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure as they did in building the highly fortified bases that the USA will be occupying for the next fifty years or so we might be seeing an Iraq that would start to approach the rosy outlook of Petraeus' confabulations. We're gonna need more calendars.
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ReplyDeleteMaybe it'll calm down to the level Ulster was in the eighties, once 90% of the population has emigrated or been killed off in secterian violence or airstrikes.
ReplyDeleteIraq must be a conservative scheme to cement isolationism forever. It is the same stragedy used in domestic affairs: Try to make everyone sick of America so that the companies can have it. (I say 'companies' because I anticipate someone saying that blaming corporations is 'tired'. Sadly, truth itself is now subject to the laws of fashion.)
ReplyDeleteWho, besides rich people and wannabe's, gets a warm feeling about the USA anymore?
Anders, the trick with the Ulster model is that the rest of the Arab world can't take another 2 or 3 million Iraqis living as refugees within the states that surround Iraq. Jordan is jammed full of Palestinians and Iraqis (and in some cases former Palestinian refugees from Iraq); Syria is full of Iraqis, as is Lebanon. I don't know about Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, but I'm guessing Iraqis are still personas non gratas due to the Gulf War. This massive population surge is creating an even larger DP underclass than the Palestinean exodus in 1948; the results will probably change the Arab World in ways we will not like.
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