The construction of a three-mile long wall that would have separated a Sunni Arab enclave from surrounding Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad was wisely halted Sunday by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Baghdad shouldn’t become another Berlin or Palestine, if at all possible.
“There are other methods to protect neighborhoods,” Maliki said.
Maliki didn’t like something the United States set in motion, and he stopped it. Could this be a baby step toward independence?
Posted by Ross Stewart
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Part of the problem along is that many in the administration have been thinking that the Iraqi are like wayward children and have to be guided in every step. Told everything that they should do like a benevolent dictator. Then we all become flustered at the lack of the Iraqi standing up and take the strives themselves to government Iraq.I love it when my children all of them over 21 come seeking my advise, but I know that it is in their best interest to do what they think is right. Even if I think it is a mistake. I applaud Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for telling the U.S. it was not in Iraq best interest to make Baghdad a walled fortress. It may have been in the U.S. best interest to wall up the combatants.But it is up to Iraq and not the U.S. to decide Iraqi best interest.
Damn them people. Who do they think they are, going against the invading armies wishes. Don’t they realize the emperor has no clothes, and is at the beck and call of the great decider? They’re going to ruin their own country, and drive the invading armies out of the country.
O wait . . . isn’t that what we want?
It’s time for that timetable, shrubster.
The wall’s design, including the footing is exactly the same as used in Israel.
US in cahoots? Naw….
Now it is also time for the several hundred thousand ARI to stand up and take over the fighting. They outnumber the ‘dead-enders in their last throes’ about 100-to-1. This is theirs to win or lose.
So replace the wall idea with ARI. Let them stand guard over their own people. Isn’t that their job???
Build the wall, get our troops out… A wall can withstand an IED better than our troops can.
Sorry, no link, but I recall reading yesterday on cnn.com that there was an announcement yesterday that the government of Iraq and the coalition forces had settled this dispute, and construction of the “wall” continues.
The Sunnies that the “wall” is supposed to protect don’t want it.
Bush { the decider } and his Israeli buddies do.
What God-awful scheme has the Mossad come up with now? They’ve been bombing one side then the other. Distraction?