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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChrisJP who wrote (10246)	4/8/2003 8:18:02 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 21614

A contrived sympathy for the Iraqi people suddenly crowds the airwaves and the printed media of Arab lands. Through the hard years of Saddam's rule, however, these same Arab media had nothing to say about the manner in which he and his fellow Tikritis shattered the autonomy of Iraq's Shiite shrine cities and executed or drove into exile countless ulema, or religious scholars. The Iraqi ruler tormented and deprived his country, and turned its political life into a private dominion of his clan, his sons and his retainers, but the crowds in Cairo and Casablanca and Amman had paid that tale of disinheritance and terror no heed. The task of reforming the Arab world cannot be the overriding concern of the predominantly young men and women entrusted with fighting this war. But the promise of reform must be there to vindicate and redeem the campaign. In the latest dispatches, the holy city of Najaf was reported jubilant. It was like the "liberation of Paris," an American officer said of the throngs that gathered around their liberators. The redemption of this war will come on Iraqi soil, with the tales told by Iraqis finally let loose from a long, brutalizing captivity. In the end, it will not really matter what Cairo and Gaza think of this war. My belief too , thanks alot for posting Prof Ajami's most current piece C ...