enigma000
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Tue Nov-29-05 09:17 AM
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The new Iraq: a fraught but worthy adventure in nation-building |
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http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/dec05/rae.pdfACTUALITÉS From North America, the news from Iraq seems not just overwhelmingly violent and negative but — except for the occasional glimmer of change — hopeless. For former Ontario Premier Bob Rae, Iraq has become something else altogether. Rae has been acting as a constitutional adviser to the Iraqi Parliament, and writes that despite the violence in the war-ravaged state, progress is being made. Rae says that “the establishment of a stable, secure state is in the broad interest of all countries, including Canada,” and that, ”Deep instability anywhere can pose a threat to Canada’s security.” There are no “countries far away of which we know little,” to borrow Neville Chamberlain’s unfortunate 1938 phrase.
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Wed Nov-30-05 04:58 AM
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1. I'd call it a criminal enterprise, myself. |
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If stability and security are the prime goals, Iraq had that under Saddam. Along with the usual oppression of course, but what has changed?
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