{"id":60,"date":"2003-07-25T10:57:19","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=60"},"modified":"2003-07-25T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2003-07-25T14:57:19","slug":"the-shoe-doesnt-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"The Shoe Doesn’t Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juan Cole’s latest article Will Sunnis fight Shiites in Iraq?<\/i><\/a> is a fine analysis of the recent rallies attended by thousands of Sunnis and Shiites. He reflects upon the signifigance of these activities and presents two scenarios for how these movements may evolve, neither supportive of the Bush administration’s hope that the killing of Uday and Qusay will somehow bring calm to the land and acceptance of the ‘new order’ by its people. <\/p>\n

The solution to this chaos seems simple enough to me but then I don’t have a burning obsession to convert all Muslims to Christianity or reorder the Middle East under the pretense of eliminating ‘terrorists’.<\/p>\n

But according to Nikolai at lenin’s tomb<\/a>, looking to the UN for a solution is idealistic in a world where laws are created and enforced by those with the wealth and power to do so. ‘Legality’ is malleable, a shopworn commodity, not necessarily the abrogator for humanity’s ills their creators parade them as in public forums. The UN, he writes, ‘is the precise institutional representation of imperial power.’<\/p>\n

Bremer has ruled out <\/a>a UN force. Instead he states the U.S. is looking for the UN to issue a request to others for peacekeeping forces. <\/p>\n

“The Secretary of State mentioned over the weekend that the administration was willing to consider the question of whether there should be a U.N. resolution inviting countries to provide troops”, he said. “But I think it’s quite clear from transition economies, countries in political transition over the last 20 years, that it’s important to have unity of command in the military side.”<\/i><\/p>\n

I don’t think Bush & Co. are seeing this situation clearly at all or that Iraq will fit neatly into any economic prospectus Bremer might cobble together. And I think the American people aren’t going to be pleased when the real costs of this venture start piling up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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