Not one responder so far has dealt with the content of your post, Fisk's article, they're content to simply sling insults.
A curfew is a reasonable and responsible precaution in this environment, it seems to me. You'd have to have no trust at all in your country, its leaders and the integrity of the individual people over there right now to come to the conclusion it's simply capricious 'imprisonment' of the Iraqi's.
As to all the questions asked, what's the use of asking without providing your own suppositions? There's a term for that type of argument, which stubbornly refuses to come to me just now, but whatever the term, the process isn't intellectually honest. It's indictment by insinuation, and it provides little for those who'd attempt to refute the position because the author can legitimately respond, "But I didn't say that!"
What possible reason could there be for the American military to deliberately permit all the Iraqi officials to escape? That's certainly what's implied here, but it's an outrageous accusation to make without owning up to it and being prepared to defend it.
There are also some valid points: there is, and there will be increasing amounts of, resistance and resentment against the Americans by some (hey, there's dissension in America too, remember!). How broad is that? I have no way of judging, and frankly I think the extent will be determined by how successfully America transitions itself out of Iraq and the government and administration of the country resolves to the Iraqi people, as the American government has said it wants.
I do believe nobody is interested in Imperial America, a Pax Americana in the way there was once a Pax Romana or Pax Brittania. America doesn't want to run Iraq.
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