From Finland.
Of all the info that I have read about Iraq, whether by those in Washington, etc., nothing hits closer to the truth of the situation in Iraq, than what Said Aburish writes in his book, Saddam Hussein, the Politics of Revenge. The problems are centuries old, and I don ´t think the goverments in the West even considered.
Quote: Many of Iraq´s historical problems---divisions between Sunnis and Shis, Arab and Kurd, not to mention occasional troubles with the small Christian minority...as had Britians (Western, mine) contribution to their continuance. .....On a lower scale, the tribes oppose the government and each other;there were conflicts between Bedouns and towsmen; cities complete with one another and resisted the central government, and even neighbourhoods within cities fought each other because of local rivalries or because their populations belonged to different religious or ethnic groups. Unquote.
In another part of this chapter, Aburish breaks-down this mentality further in how the uneducated resent the educated, the poor against the tradesmen, the townspeople resent the peasant and vica-vrsa...etc.
All these problems are centuries old and one wonders if these internal and explosive mintures existed before; how much more when it is on a regional and international scale.
The problems that the West are facing started with the Brites before and during WW I and after, and the Americans during and after WW II. If Bush sends in more troops, or eventually pulls the troops out...the internal problems will still exist because Iraqi mentalilty, or all Arab mentality, is really based on tribalism.
My thoughts for now,
david.
Of all the info that I have read about Iraq, whether by those in Washington, etc., nothing hits closer to the truth of the situation in Iraq, than what Said Aburish writes in his book, Saddam Hussein, the Politics of Revenge. The problems are centuries old, and I don ´t think the goverments in the West even considered.
Quote: Many of Iraq´s historical problems---divisions between Sunnis and Shis, Arab and Kurd, not to mention occasional troubles with the small Christian minority...as had Britians (Western, mine) contribution to their continuance. .....On a lower scale, the tribes oppose the government and each other;there were conflicts between Bedouns and towsmen; cities complete with one another and resisted the central government, and even neighbourhoods within cities fought each other because of local rivalries or because their populations belonged to different religious or ethnic groups. Unquote.
In another part of this chapter, Aburish breaks-down this mentality further in how the uneducated resent the educated, the poor against the tradesmen, the townspeople resent the peasant and vica-vrsa...etc.
All these problems are centuries old and one wonders if these internal and explosive mintures existed before; how much more when it is on a regional and international scale.
The problems that the West are facing started with the Brites before and during WW I and after, and the Americans during and after WW II. If Bush sends in more troops, or eventually pulls the troops out...the internal problems will still exist because Iraqi mentalilty, or all Arab mentality, is really based on tribalism.
My thoughts for now,
david.
