Post by nick on Oct 12, 2006 21:11:51 GMT -5
I did lots of research and wrote an analysis on the history of Iraq for an article I wrote yesterday, What You Need To Know About The Middle East:
nickdupree.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-you-need-to-know-about-middle.html.
The Bush crew went into this woefully ignorant of history. They made a miscalculation of historic proportions when they invaded on the premise that we would be "greeted as liberators" like when we liberated Holland from the Nazis in WWII. It is a great thing to want to overthrow tyrants and liberate people, but Holland had a centuries-old liberal tradition they were yearning to revert back to[/b]; Arab tribesmen don't have Western values and aren't particularly interested in them. If they would learn from history, they'd know Alexander and the Greeks couldn't convert pre-Islamic Mesopotamia into Hellenized citizens even though they put much more direct effort into the project than we are, British colonials couldn't convert Islamic Mesopotamia to Western values no matter what they tried, and on and on. The root cause of what we're seeing now is the consquence of the British drawing artificial borders on their holdings and creating the artificial country of Iraq, without regard to natural ethnic and regional divisions, thus enclosing people who have little in common and hate each other (Sunni, Shia and Kurd) into the same country, and it could only be held together by brutal despots. And since Bush has no new plan to hold together Iraq, nor the additional troops needed to actually hold territory, it will continue to dissolve into three nations along sectarian lines, with the Shia region already a client state of Iran. Great work, Bush!
Read my detailed analysis, including an interactive flash map of the history of the Middle East, here: What You Need To Know About The Middle East:
nickdupree.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-you-need-to-know-about-middle.html.
Spread my blog please!
Nick
nickdupree.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-you-need-to-know-about-middle.html.
The Bush crew went into this woefully ignorant of history. They made a miscalculation of historic proportions when they invaded on the premise that we would be "greeted as liberators" like when we liberated Holland from the Nazis in WWII. It is a great thing to want to overthrow tyrants and liberate people, but Holland had a centuries-old liberal tradition they were yearning to revert back to[/b]; Arab tribesmen don't have Western values and aren't particularly interested in them. If they would learn from history, they'd know Alexander and the Greeks couldn't convert pre-Islamic Mesopotamia into Hellenized citizens even though they put much more direct effort into the project than we are, British colonials couldn't convert Islamic Mesopotamia to Western values no matter what they tried, and on and on. The root cause of what we're seeing now is the consquence of the British drawing artificial borders on their holdings and creating the artificial country of Iraq, without regard to natural ethnic and regional divisions, thus enclosing people who have little in common and hate each other (Sunni, Shia and Kurd) into the same country, and it could only be held together by brutal despots. And since Bush has no new plan to hold together Iraq, nor the additional troops needed to actually hold territory, it will continue to dissolve into three nations along sectarian lines, with the Shia region already a client state of Iran. Great work, Bush!
Read my detailed analysis, including an interactive flash map of the history of the Middle East, here: What You Need To Know About The Middle East:
nickdupree.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-you-need-to-know-about-middle.html.
Spread my blog please!
Nick
