Iraq: False Hopes
The Guardian pounds on Bush’s ‘victory’ speech: “Talk of withdrawing from Iraqi cities sounded sensible enough, but there was no broader recognition of how the fatally magnetic effect of the US occupation is itself sustaining the insurgency and that ending it depends on splitting off foreign jihadis from the Iraqi Sunni mainstream by using negotiation, amnesties and building a more inclusive political system. The commander-in-chief went back to emotional memories of 1945 to warn that this war will not end with a surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship. What is certainly true is that the “complete victory” of which he spoke is a dangerous fantasy.”
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