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If We Had Only Known

"The good intentions of the statesmen of Iraq, whose political experience is necessarily small, it is to be feared that serious difficulties may arise out of the differences which in some cases exist in regard to political ideas between the Shiites of the South and the Sunnites of the North, the racial differences between Arabs and Kurds, and the necessity of keeping the turbulent tribes under control.... These difficulties might be fatal to the very existence of the State if it were left without support and guidance.”

Where did such prescient advice come from? A 1925 League of Nations report on Iraq that Roger Cohen, noted in his column this morning. The GOP loves to accuse the anti-war left of having 20/20 hindsight. Looks like foresight is 20/20, too.

—Nick Baumann

Comments

If we only knew Vietnam would become a market economy by 2007...

BLAH..BLAH...BLAH....

Posted by: Ames Tiedeman on 09/14/07 at 1:36 PM

If ONLY the majority of humans weren’t authority worshipping sheep …

If ONLY the majority of humans weren’t self-delusional idiots …

If ONLY the majority of humans …

Posted by: John on 09/14/07 at 2:31 PM

Yeah, yeah, yeah..., everybody but John is an authority worshiping, self-delusional idiot of one political stripe or other.
We know.
You've said it often enough.

When are you going to have a DIFFERENT sort of comment on a news story, John?
Soon?
Ever?
When we feel a cool breeze wafting from the direction of hell?

Posted by: gvc on 09/14/07 at 2:42 PM