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| Arabs say U.S. wants to ''balkanize'' region... |
| 2002-08-30 |
| US plans for military intervention in Iraq are part of a larger project to "balkanise" the region as part of a strategy proposed by Israel, the assistant secretary general of the Arab League, Said Kamal, said Thursday. "The Israelis have tried to balkanise Lebanon. They failed. Now, the United States has turned to other countries. One part of the administration is looking to Iraq and Sudan," he added. Sounds fine to me... He said after Iraq and Sudan Washington would try to "balkanise" Saudi Arabia and Egypt in a re-formulation of the classic imperial "divide and rule" approach. Sounds even better... In Sudan, Washington has supported the accord between the Khartoum government and rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) who control most of the south of the country. Egypt and other Arab states immediately blasted the accord as a US-sponsored partition of Sudan. We, on the other hand, regard it as a Sudanese problem, and don't really care. It's the crucifixions and slavery that stick in our national craw. Some analysts see the same tendency in Iraq. According government newspaper Al-Ahram analyst Mahmoud Moawad, Washington seeks to carve up Iraq into three parts, with the current no-fly zones in the north of the country setting the stage for such a division. Sounds okay to me. Iraq has usually been two or three or more "countries," dating back before the Babylon-Assyria rivalry... Meanwhile Al-Ahram columnist Mohammed Sid Ahmed saw in Bush's designs the need to "atone for the September 11 humiliation. "Everone has told him no, all US former officials, all Arab leaders; so where does his insistence stems from?", he asked. "Bush has a global vision, he is blind to what is regional. September 11 humiliated him and therefore (he thinks) he should strike at all costs. Answered his own question, didn't he? It's never going to happen again, if Bush can help it. "It is Pearl Harbour, and there must be Hiroshima and Nagasaki," he told AFP. Hyperbolic, but I'd rather see Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Baghdad and Mossul — or Mecca and Riyadh — than in New York and Washington. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 They didn't listen right. We said "vulcanize" |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-08-30 12:35:28 |