{"id":557,"date":"2005-09-30T22:34:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T02:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/09\/30\/there-is-no-iraq\/"},"modified":"2005-09-30T22:34:33","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T02:34:33","slug":"there-is-no-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/30\/there-is-no-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everyone is wrong — from the arrogant
\n neo-clowns who brought you this war to the mindless bureaucrats who maintain
\n it to the well-intentioned intellectuals that are grasping for a decent
\n and humane way out. Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the wall and all the
\n king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Iraq back together
\n again.<\/p>\n

There is no Iraq. It does not exist in the minds and
\n souls of the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. There will be three different
\n countries in the place we call Iraq, whether we like it or not.<\/p>\n

from The
\n Huffington Post <\/a>by Cenk Uygur<\/p>\n

The Dowbrigade has long held that the basic problem
\n in the modern Middle East is the existence of artificial, externally
\n imposed nation states, created by a conspiratorial cabal of European
\n power mongers after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire. The family, tribal
\n and religious ties that bind the inhabitants of fertile cresent are orders
\n of
\n magnitude
\n stronger than any imagined aligence to the Western fantasy of a coherent
\n state happily funneling us their oil deposits while going about their
\n swarthy third-world business in an orderly way.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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