The Iraqi crisis strikes again, in Denmark this time.
At the mean while, Bremer changed his policy for the Fifth time, but his greyhound is still barking. I think changing the policy of the CPA is not a bad thing at all; it is better to change the policy than to go ahead and make further mistakes.
Well… changing the main policy for five times in public in less than a year isn’t very great though.
The Friday prayer at Najaf was very interesting and important today, the speeches of AsSadr and the Supreme council for the Islamic revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) had a dramatic evolution, AsSadr threatens to start a Suiside Bombers War if Najaf was attacked, and I believe he can do a real REALY massive scale war using his militias of human bombs, and the SCIRI’s spokesman had a strong speech which can considered as an articulation in the Sadr-Hakim relationship, the speech criticized AsSadr and his Anti-American policy in a very strong way, it claimed that the Sadr acts are harmful for Shia: economically and personally; it is killing them and reducing the number of people coming to weekly pilgrimage (i.e. reducing the income of the city). This would would make the conflict between the two major Shia Parties come to the surface.
(it seems that Sharon is changing his plans too)
ok ok…
About my theory of solving the Iraqi crisis.
I will be kind of "inductive" in declaring my individual (maybe anarchist) perspective for an Iraqi road map, by discussing details first, and reaching to the big picture in some days.
The Iraqi Road Map: Part one: Concept.
The main concept of this Iraqi Road Map is based on a pubic apology, it may sound utopian and kind of romantic, but that would be really important to stop the continues failure of the CPA.
Just Stop… Confess the previous mistakes… and Restart.
The current pattern of failures and policy changing will not lead to any real solutions, the American administration must admit that the last year was a total mess, that nothing positive will come out if the currant policy is going to continue, and that standing in a brave way and confessing this failure can give everyone a good restarting point. This apology must admit the exaggeration in the whole issue of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and other reasons that justified the war, the Bush administration must apologize to the American and Iraqi people and compensate the thousands who were killed and injured in this unjustified war. The admission of guilt must also remember people from other countries that sent their children to be a part of the fake coalition, they must be sent back home and the U.S. government must be responsible, accountable and fix the mess it caused.
I know it is hard to confess that the last year was a disaster, and the war wasn’t justified, but this will be easier for the next administration if Bush wasn’t elected again.
The Iraqi Road Map: Part two: The Iraqi Government.
The radical extreme methodologies of destroying all the previous structures and establishments of the Iraqi Government was a wrong thing to do, people like me said that a year ago and stood against the ideas of Chalabi, and people like Bremer just found out today that most of these strategies and tactics are not valid.
The physical destruction of the Iraqi Ministries buildings, and the destruction of the Iraqi Ministries employees’ structure and hierarchy was one of the greatest mistakes. The American administration should have continued with the policy of distinguishing between Saddam and the Iraqi civilians, those Ministries were civilians, they were the best representatives and solutions for controlling the Iraqi society, they were functioning in a good way and they were built on secular basis. Those Ministries had the experience in running the country, and have great experience how to deal with a post war situation, and would have been a key player in the reconstruction campaign. Those ministries must be rebuilt.
The whole concept of De-Bathification was a great mistake, it gave the Baathists their dark corner to rebuild themselves, and excluded many professional and important people for the new Iraqi society. De-Baathification was a repetition for what Baathists used to do for non Baathists, that was a big moral mistake. When some volunteers in my NGO criticize their colleagues and ask me to kick them out because they were “Baathists”, I used to say that we must be better than Baathists, and let them feel how they destroyed our lives, but let them join the community because they are our people and our relatives too. When I used to say these things a year ago, people from the CPA called me a Baathist! Haha! :*)
The awful decision of splitting up the Iraqi army can be changed too, when we send more than 350,000 soldiers back home to die slowly, we must expect them to go and join militias, or to fight against the “New Iraq”… I mean… for god’s sake! It is their carrier! Fighting! How can we send them to feel desperate and hungry! The National Iraqi Army must be rebuilt again, it is well respected by the Iraqi people, and it can take the responsibility of the security problems inside the cities, and protect borders. It is a well trained army that is built upon secular basis, if soldiers were given something like $250 a month, no one will go and join militias! Rebuilding the Iraqi Army will give a chance to the American army to withdraw and reduce the daily contact with the Iraqi people, in a first step before the complete withdrawal of the American army, this idea of leaving permanent American bases is like starting a non-stop war. The “thing” called “New Iraqi Army” is nothing more than a bigger version of the militias of Chalabi, no one respect them, and they can’t do anything useful. Majid (my brohter) wrote an interesting artical about the militias of Chalabi some time ago.
The Iraqi civil society must be reactivated, to give the Iraqis the feeling that they are participating in rebuilding their country, and to change the currant theory of the American magic wand. Iraqi micro communities (as in neighborhoods) must take their responsibilities, and must have their chance and voice in rebuilding the new society all the way with their ministries, the ministries are The Government, the entity that can be trusted, and handed over the authorities in something more than the comedy show that will happen in the 30th of June. Handing over the authorities to no one and changing the name of the CPA to the “Embassy” with 3000 people, (or with 1700 as they say now), taking the presidential palace as a center is the worst thing that can happen… the worst.
Ok ok .. reached to my 1000 words limit :*)
I’ll continue tomorrow.
At the mean while, Bremer changed his policy for the Fifth time, but his greyhound is still barking. I think changing the policy of the CPA is not a bad thing at all; it is better to change the policy than to go ahead and make further mistakes.
Well… changing the main policy for five times in public in less than a year isn’t very great though.
The Friday prayer at Najaf was very interesting and important today, the speeches of AsSadr and the Supreme council for the Islamic revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) had a dramatic evolution, AsSadr threatens to start a Suiside Bombers War if Najaf was attacked, and I believe he can do a real REALY massive scale war using his militias of human bombs, and the SCIRI’s spokesman had a strong speech which can considered as an articulation in the Sadr-Hakim relationship, the speech criticized AsSadr and his Anti-American policy in a very strong way, it claimed that the Sadr acts are harmful for Shia: economically and personally; it is killing them and reducing the number of people coming to weekly pilgrimage (i.e. reducing the income of the city). This would would make the conflict between the two major Shia Parties come to the surface.
(it seems that Sharon is changing his plans too)
ok ok…
About my theory of solving the Iraqi crisis.
I will be kind of "inductive" in declaring my individual (maybe anarchist) perspective for an Iraqi road map, by discussing details first, and reaching to the big picture in some days.
The Iraqi Road Map: Part one: Concept.
The main concept of this Iraqi Road Map is based on a pubic apology, it may sound utopian and kind of romantic, but that would be really important to stop the continues failure of the CPA.
Just Stop… Confess the previous mistakes… and Restart.
The current pattern of failures and policy changing will not lead to any real solutions, the American administration must admit that the last year was a total mess, that nothing positive will come out if the currant policy is going to continue, and that standing in a brave way and confessing this failure can give everyone a good restarting point. This apology must admit the exaggeration in the whole issue of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and other reasons that justified the war, the Bush administration must apologize to the American and Iraqi people and compensate the thousands who were killed and injured in this unjustified war. The admission of guilt must also remember people from other countries that sent their children to be a part of the fake coalition, they must be sent back home and the U.S. government must be responsible, accountable and fix the mess it caused.
I know it is hard to confess that the last year was a disaster, and the war wasn’t justified, but this will be easier for the next administration if Bush wasn’t elected again.
The Iraqi Road Map: Part two: The Iraqi Government.
The radical extreme methodologies of destroying all the previous structures and establishments of the Iraqi Government was a wrong thing to do, people like me said that a year ago and stood against the ideas of Chalabi, and people like Bremer just found out today that most of these strategies and tactics are not valid.
The physical destruction of the Iraqi Ministries buildings, and the destruction of the Iraqi Ministries employees’ structure and hierarchy was one of the greatest mistakes. The American administration should have continued with the policy of distinguishing between Saddam and the Iraqi civilians, those Ministries were civilians, they were the best representatives and solutions for controlling the Iraqi society, they were functioning in a good way and they were built on secular basis. Those Ministries had the experience in running the country, and have great experience how to deal with a post war situation, and would have been a key player in the reconstruction campaign. Those ministries must be rebuilt.
The whole concept of De-Bathification was a great mistake, it gave the Baathists their dark corner to rebuild themselves, and excluded many professional and important people for the new Iraqi society. De-Baathification was a repetition for what Baathists used to do for non Baathists, that was a big moral mistake. When some volunteers in my NGO criticize their colleagues and ask me to kick them out because they were “Baathists”, I used to say that we must be better than Baathists, and let them feel how they destroyed our lives, but let them join the community because they are our people and our relatives too. When I used to say these things a year ago, people from the CPA called me a Baathist! Haha! :*)
The awful decision of splitting up the Iraqi army can be changed too, when we send more than 350,000 soldiers back home to die slowly, we must expect them to go and join militias, or to fight against the “New Iraq”… I mean… for god’s sake! It is their carrier! Fighting! How can we send them to feel desperate and hungry! The National Iraqi Army must be rebuilt again, it is well respected by the Iraqi people, and it can take the responsibility of the security problems inside the cities, and protect borders. It is a well trained army that is built upon secular basis, if soldiers were given something like $250 a month, no one will go and join militias! Rebuilding the Iraqi Army will give a chance to the American army to withdraw and reduce the daily contact with the Iraqi people, in a first step before the complete withdrawal of the American army, this idea of leaving permanent American bases is like starting a non-stop war. The “thing” called “New Iraqi Army” is nothing more than a bigger version of the militias of Chalabi, no one respect them, and they can’t do anything useful. Majid (my brohter) wrote an interesting artical about the militias of Chalabi some time ago.
The Iraqi civil society must be reactivated, to give the Iraqis the feeling that they are participating in rebuilding their country, and to change the currant theory of the American magic wand. Iraqi micro communities (as in neighborhoods) must take their responsibilities, and must have their chance and voice in rebuilding the new society all the way with their ministries, the ministries are The Government, the entity that can be trusted, and handed over the authorities in something more than the comedy show that will happen in the 30th of June. Handing over the authorities to no one and changing the name of the CPA to the “Embassy” with 3000 people, (or with 1700 as they say now), taking the presidential palace as a center is the worst thing that can happen… the worst.
Ok ok .. reached to my 1000 words limit :*)
I’ll continue tomorrow.
