¿Cómo terminamos con tantos aprietos en Irak? Porque hicimos lo que hemos hecho por largo tiempo: Buscamos no a los extranjeros con quienes todavía necesitamos trabajar, sino a los exiliados que fueran más parecidos a nosotros.
How did we end up in such a fix in Iraq? We sought out not the foreigners whom we still need to work with, but the exiles who were most like us. The practice of imposing unpopular proxies hardly began in Iraq.
Try to imagine yourself or your family living in Baghdad over the past decade, enduring tyranny, privation and wars. What if your family came from the old ruling guard but the quality of your life had only eroded?
¿Por qué los iraquíes no se sublevaron en contra de Saddam Hussein? Lo más seguro es que muchos recuerdan la última vez que lo hicieron después de seguir las instrucciones comandadas por los Estados Unidos.
Why aren’t more Iraqis rising up against President Saddam Hussein? Most likely, many remember what happened the last time they followed U.S. instructions to rise up against him.
Any egomaniac with an audience can do a live stand-up in an alleged combat zone, but Jon Lee Anderson is a war correspondent’s journalist. His book, The Lion’s Grave, skillfully navigates Afghani politics.
The influential journal Foreign Affairs ran an article on Iraq entitled “The Rollback Fantasy.” But unfortunately, it got Iraqi’s basic demographic’s all wrong to create a myth that misled President George W. Bush and others.
