Iraq: back to the stone age
[T]he devastation that is now Iraq is not of a kind that can always be easily explained in a short report, nor for that matter is it any longer easily repaired. In many cities, an American reliance on artillery and air power during the worst days of fighting helped devastate the Iraqi infrastructure. Political and economic changes imposed by the American occupation did damage of another kind, often depriving Iraqis not just of their livelihoods but of the very tools they would now need to launch a major reconstruction effort in their own country.
What is there to say?
(Via Mike P.)
Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 9:26 am
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How about, let’s make it better?
I saw the article at Tomdispatch as well and have been encouraging people to read it. Let’s not forget that we supposedly invaded Iraq to make things better there and make the world safer, neither of which have been achieved. Yet only this week (Wednesday) the Independent carried an article from someone called Lamont Colucci saying that the Bush doctrine of preventive invasions would endure!
(The Independent said that the article was based on a talk to the Andrew Jackson Society but I suspect that the Indy made a mistake and it was really our old firends the Henry “Scoop” Jackson society which still seems to be in existence, despite the failure of its idea of starting wars to make other countries better)
You’re quite right (the Andrew Jackson Society are another sort of lunatics entirely).