Fiddling while Baghdad burns
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1558020,00.html
Iraqis need time and patience to come up with the right constitution.
First we must stop the civil war.
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Sunday August 28, 2005
The Observer
In 1453, the Ottoman armies were marching towards the gates of
Constantinople while inside the city walls, the Greek Orthodox priests
and a delegation of Latin Catholic cardinals were trying to come up
with a Manifesto of Understanding between the two sects before forming
an alliance that would fight the marching Muslim Turks. The clerics
were engaged in futile discussions on issues such as how many angels
can stand on the end of a pin and whether the angels were males or
females.
Ghaith Abdul Ahad
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