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EvilCrimeLord -> RE: This is what happens when you retreat from Iraq too early (8/12/2007 11:29:38 AM)
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ORIGINAL: NavyDDG54
Thank god the British gave us this preview of what will happen.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20137025/
Note the following:
As British forces pull back from Basra in southern Iraq, Shiite militias there have escalated a violent battle against each other for political supremacy and control over oil resources, deepening concerns among some U.S. officials in Baghdad that elements of Iraq's Shiite-dominated national government will turn on one another once U.S. troops begin to draw down.
Three major Shiite political groups are locked in a bloody conflict that has left the city in the hands of militias and criminal gangs, whose control extends to municipal offices and neighborhood streets. The city is plagued by "the systematic misuse of official institutions, political assassinations, tribal vendettas, neighborhood vigilantism and enforcement of social mores, together with the rise of criminal mafias that increasingly intermingle with political actors," a recent report by the International Crisis Group said.
This would have always happened day one or day one hundred and one no difference. People need to find their own heroes and that is what is finally happening. If your history had been imposed on you how much would you respect it? The key moments in your history that you remember are those times that people rose up against the British occupation of your country and how a society was built out of civil war. The people in Iraq need to go through a similar process to build their own shared history and all we can do there is more harm. Step back from the chaos because that’s the only way they will stop blaming you for creating it. People can’t complain about their own actions or history unless others are dictating it.
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