The nadir of occupation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1670282,00.html
Last week's election does little to heal the wounds that are splitting
Iraq up into violent fiefdoms
Salim Lone
Monday December 19, 2005
The Guardian
In American proconsul Paul Bremer's 2003 master plan, last week's
election was meant to be the culminating act in entrenching democratic
rule in Iraq. Instead it marks the nadir of the American enterprise
there. The brutal failure of that enterprise, and of the similarly
unlawful tactics employed in the war on terror, has boosted terrorist
ranks worldwide, dealt grievous blows to the notion that human rights
and the rule of law are essential elements in building democracy, and
brought the US's standing to its lowest point in generations.
Salim Lone
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