News from Mosul.
"There are always bad news, I hesitate to report them but as I have no new post since long time, I decided to post some of the recent news...Welcome back TT, good to hear your voice again,.
..."In my opinion, the occupation is the only cause, and the chaos will not end unless the last foreign soldier leave Iraq.""
A Citizen of Mosul
I think your assessment is too simplistic.
You asked an important question:
" Why all these happened in the past four years and not before?"
First of all, much of the violence prior to the invasion came from the regime itself. So you did not hear on the news every time a new mass grave was filled
Then we come to the post invasion period. There are many warring faction all looking to gain absolute power as saddam wielded, and then you have the neighboring powers, all dictatorships vying for influence, or outright control. Non of which are interested in having even a minimally operating democracy next door.
Then we come to the US and the Bush strategy of fighting a buffer war on al qeada in Iraq. Now I have never approved of such a strategy, but you have to see why it was chosen. It might be the only way to instigate the necessary civil wars so that all those powers and groups which will resist even a minimal democracy from operating, to exhaust their will to resist fighting amongst you and themselves. Mind you, not a path I would have chosen had I been president,
Now if we were to take away even a minimal chance for the Iraqi people to share power in a democratic state, and just put back a strongman who would fight for complete control, I am sure the pressure from your neighbors would subside, and the pressures from within could be silenced, but Iraq would them be back on a path that can only end in tyranny of the very few, over the great masses.
That would truly be a crime, and it would in the long run kill and impoverish more people.
Liberal democracies and market economies have been proven to date without a doubt to be the lest worst models for improving peoples lives.
So I have to ask you. Do you think that a withdrawal of occupying forces will lead to Iraq stabilizing under a liberal democracy?
Or are you just saying that a withdrawal end the chaos with a quick return to the old regime?, or a new better old regime?
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