"The whole Middle East is undergoing fundamental changes and Iraq will soon be a model of development and democracy for the entire region."
"Our aim is to create a healthy body politic, guided and controlled by healthy public opinion."
"The Iraqi government should be formed by the people themselves through a National Congress fully representative of the people."
No, it was not George Bush. The comments were made by various English statesmen 80 and more years ago when England began its League of Nations mandate to take over what was then Mesopotamia (or, as the Daily Show spells it and it soon became then and now, Mess-O-Potamia) and has now evolved into Iraq. The biggest problem then, as it is now, was a lack of security driven by sectarian militancy.
Didn't someone once say something to the effect that those who don't learn from the past are doomed to make the mistakes of the past all over again?
2 comments:
Hi Al -
There are some very encouraging signs of Muslims uniting in Bahrain. Funny, I didn't read about this at all in The New York Times.
Read/see more here:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/massive-muslim-protest-in-bahrain.html
and here:
http://www.montadayat.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11035
Will,
I think this is great! Let's hope there willo be more of it.
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