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Sunday, November 14, 2004
Why the Battle for Fallujah?George Will today offers an interesting take on what the attack on Fallujah means. operations in Fallujah, and perhaps in three or more other Iraqi cities, may determine whether elections scheduled for late January will midwife the birth of a viable state. As events unfold in Fallujah, the two great questions are: In a region where there is little tradition of armies loyal to the state, can Iraq's military be reconstituted while a new Iraqi state is being constituted? And can this be done before Americans' patience is exhausted by the suspicion that the current Iraqi government is prepared to "fight to the last American"? Success in Iraq, people here believe, is contingent on three ifs: • If Iraqi military and security forces can stay intact during contacts with the insurgents. • If insurgents are killed in sufficient numbers to convince the Sunni political class that it must invest its hope in politics. • If neighboring states, especially Syria, will cooperate in slowing the flow of money and other aid to the insurgency. If so, then America can -- this is the preferred verb -- "stand up" an Iraqi state and recede from a dominant role. George Will is right wing but is more of a reporter than he is a ‘water-bearer’ for the Bush administration. In this instance he presents a reasonable explanation for why we are attacking Fallujah and what our military thinks they might get as a result. Time will tell. |
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