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«'We did not give them a republic. We gave them a civil war»
terça-feira, fevereiro 06, 2007
Replying to Fareed Zakaria's observation in Newsweek, about Iraq and the Iraqis—that 'We did not give them a republic. We gave them a civil war.'— Charles Krauthammer, in the Washington Post, expressed a fine contempt: Did Britain 'give' India the Hindu-Muslim war of 1947-48 that killed a million souls and ethnically cleansed 12 million more? The Jewish-Arab wars in Palestine?
Alas, the answer to the above sarcastic questions is 'yes.'
Continue a ler:
"Iraq's problems existed long before 2003", por Christopher Hitchens
in Slate Magazine
posted by Margarida C. on 3:44 da manhã