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May 21, 2006
Civil War And Civil Progress
Members of Iraq's parliament approved its first government formed under their new, permanent constitution--a mere three years after Saddam's ouster. As Ed Morrissey notes:
Considering that and the religious and ethnic tensions that exist in Iraq, along with the bitterness of the past few decades under Saddam Hussein's brutal rule, the marvel is that it only took three years to get to this stage. After Washington beat Cornwallis at Yorktown, it took an ethnically and religiously monolithic populace over seven years to agree on a permanent form of government, during which they got it wrong once. In contrast, the Iraqi people marched to polling stations under dangerous conditions not once but three times within a year in order to create the temporary government that drew up their charter, to approve it, and then to elect representatives to form the permanent government.From a historical perspective, that is quite impressive.
It certainly is, so where's the celebration? I guess the MSM doesn't do historical perspective.
Meanwhile, AJStrata observes:
The media won’t say it, but a true civil war is erupting in Palestine (not Iraq).
A parliamentary success in a hall in Baghdad is relatively easy to sweep under the rug; a hot shooting war in Gaza between Hamas and Fatah will be much harder to ignore. It will be interesting to see how the MSM and the Left spin it.
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