Mugged By Reality: John Agresto's Views On Iraq

"One of the most interesting and intelligent books ever written about post-invasion Iraq is Mugged By Reality by Dr. John Agresto, who spent nine months working in Iraq for the Coalition Provisional Authority as senior advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Agresto, one of the clearest American thinkers to ever venture into the dysfunctional maelstrom that was/is Iraq, received his PhD from Cornell University, taught American government and political philosophy at the University of Toronto, Duke, Kenyon, Wabash College, and the New School University; served for more than ten years as President of Santa Fe College in New Mexico, and was Acting Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Here are Agresto's thoughts -- gathered from his book, writings, and interviews -- on Iraq (a syncretistic culture replete with Islam, tribalism, and Arabic mores), Saddam, freedom versus safety, Iraqi Women, Iraq's Christians, American failures, the dark despotic ubersoul of the Iraqi populace, the looting, Iraq's education system, the Kurds, Iraq's Shia majority, Iran's victory, and Ayatollah Sistani... and much more. Let us begin..."
IBC ~Mister Ghost

Standard crap

The Women Were Liberated And Empowered In Saddam's Iraq

The Situation for Women was better under Saddam

If the first were really true, the second would be impossible.

I stopped reading after that, but you can go and make your own mind.