The Only Option for Iraq

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Published on Monday, January 31, 2005 by International Herald Tribune
The Only Option for Iraq
by William Pfaff


ROME -- The Iraq insurgency is many things, but above all it is anti-American and nationalist.

The U.S. command in Baghdad still does not reliably know the composition of the insurrection. It variously describes it as "regime-remnants," ex-Baathists, foreign jihadists, criminals, "dead-enders," or members of Al Qaeda led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. All these are self-serving formulations for U.S. domestic political use. The important issue is what would happen to the insurgency in an Iraq that had regained its independence.

The political process the United States started with Sunday's election is to conclude with the Iraqis governing themselves. There is an unacknowledged factor in this promise: The United States is already unable to govern Iraq.

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