An excerpt from today’s Friedman column, which talks about America’s reputation
in the middle east:
source: http://
www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/opinion/25FRIE.html
“Consider what happened in Basra on Wednesday: Some residents spontaneously sto
ned British troops coming to rescue Iraqi schoolgirls who were caught up in the
suicide bombings of Basra police stations. These were our best friends in Iraq
— the Shiites — stoning the British, while they were trying to rescu
e Iraqi children attacked by Islamist terrorists.
That’s what we’re now up against. It is the wrath of a local population that ha
s begun to view its liberators as worse than occupiers — because they can’
t even provide what tyranny does, i.e. control and security, which are the nece
ssary foundations for economic or political development.”
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