Luckily for us, we have the UK press to set us straight on just how well its going over there. Heck, they even interviewed the former interim Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi:
IRAQ’S former interim prime minister Iyad Allawi has warned that his country is facing civil war and has predicted dire consequences for Europe and America as well as the Middle East if the crisis is not resolved.SEE! its going just SWELL in Iraq.
“The problem is that the Americans have no vision and no clear policy on how to go about in Iraq,” said Allawi, a long-time ally of Washington.
In an interview with The Sunday Times last week as he visited Amman, the Jordanian capital, he said: “The policy should be of building national unity in Iraq. Without this we will most certainly slip into a civil war. We are practically in stage one of a civil war as we speak.”
Allawi, a secular Shi’ite, said that Iraq had collapsed as a state and needed to be rebuilt. The only way forward, he said, was through “national unity, the building of institutions, the economy and a firm but peaceful foreign relation policy”. Unless these criteria were satisfied, “the country will deteriorate”.
--a serious aside...Just how stupid DO you have to be to go to war with the wrong country when the nation is attacked? Really? And if not just a stupid blunder, what would you call it?
2 comments:
Hello, Jason:
I'd love a link to that original article, if you still have it.
Great blog, BTW. Hope all is well in Jackson.
-Buck Allred
Hey Buck! glad you like the blog. I update pretty regularly (avg 2-3x a day over the week and not all of it is serious/political stuff). If you want the article, click the title of this post. whenever possible i try to attribute whatever i've quoted and provide a link. often it is the actual title of the post (like here).
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