IRAQ: 'CHAOS' IS PROGRESS

New York Post ^ | 2/02/04 | AMIR TAHERI

[kattracks]

February 2, 2004 -- AT a radio phone-in program the other day, some listeners took me to task for Iraq's "slide into chaos."

"You campaigned for the liberation of Iraq, and now look what has happened." This was followed by a "what has happened" list of events that included Shi'ites demonstrating, Kurds asking for autonomy, Sunnis sulking and various political parties and groups tearing each other apart in the Iraqi media over the shape of the future constitution.

[kattracks]

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[serurier]

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the ping!

Thank goodness for the New York Post, Arab Press and Amir Taheri.

8 Iraq Beginning to Become a Normal Society ~ Arab News | 1/30/04 | Amir Taheri

[mewzilla]

The Coalition should accept that the road ahead will be bumpy. But that is not necessarily bad news. For democracy is nothing but a journey on constantly bumpy roads.

Well put.

Germany and Japan weren't reconstructed in a day, either.

[nuconvert]

BUMP