He is one of the innumerable victims of the ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) campaign in which the Iraqi army, armed and trained by the U.S. for many years, quickly melted away, abandoning much of Iraq to a few thousand militants, hardly a new experience in imperial history. Right above the picture is the newspapers famous motto: All the News Thats Fit to Print. There is a crucial omission. The front page should display the words of the Nuremberg judgment of prominent Nazis - words that must be repeated until they penetrate general consciousness: Aggression is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole. In a recent interview with Moyers & Company, Iraq specialist Raed Jarrar outlines what we in the West should know. Like many Iraqis, he is half-Shiite, half-Sunni, and in preinvasion Iraq he barely knew the religious identities of his relatives because sect wasnt really a part of the national consciousness. Jarrar reminds us that this sectarian strife that is destroying the country ... clearly began with the U.S. invasion and occupation.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:10:49 +0000
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