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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (116278)10/6/2003 8:39:09 PM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
the confrontation that unfolded in central Baghdad on Sunday, pitting a few hundred former Iraqi army conscripts against U.S. military forces and the newly reconstituted Iraqi police, said much about the difficulties Americans face as occupiers of a country many of them barely understand.

By the time the morning-long standoff had ended, the American soldiers had succeeded in preventing violence, but at the cost of something intangible yet vital to the longer-term success of the American involvement in Iraq: goodwill.

I do not understand why a few hundred local demonstrators are worthy of non-stop international news coverage.

Demonstrations occur in America every day. Yet very few receive more than a cursory glance by local press.

And since when is a successful American effort to prevent violence costly to our goodwill?
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