Becker: Well, absolutely. This is a continuation of the old colonial tradition called extraterritoriality. That is what it used to be called when the British and the French in particular with colonized centenaries, they would institute policies that said that their nationals could not be subject to trial, to the justice system of the colonized country and they forced by means of arms those countries to accept it. In many countries, that was the source of great, great anger as anyone I think could understand. It led to many rebellions in China when China was under foreign domination but it is a profoundly colonialist policy and I think that the Iraqi government wants to deny that it has assured Washington that there would be immunity for US personnel as part of the deal but they do not want to admit that because of this is so understandably unpopular. But the United States is clearly making demands right now on the Iraqi government, on the al-Maliki government as conditions for receiving a greater US aid and intervention and receiving that intervention is now taking place.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 07:32:03 +0000
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