Arabs Worry Over Extremism While Evoking Vindication

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/international/middleeast/09ARAB.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=

Arabs Worry Over Extremism While Evoking Vindication
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

AIRO, April 8 — Some Arabs watching the escalating violence in Iraq expressed fear Thursday that the United States, rather than helping to stamp out extremism, might have created a new, toxic incubator for it, while others expressed satisfaction that the Americans were getting their nose bloodied.

There is an almost universal sense in the Arab world that Washington is paying the price for entering Iraq with no coherent plan beyond toppling Saddam Hussein, and that the anarchy they allowed to run unchecked in the first days of occupation a year ago has never really been tamed.

"Iraq appears to be disintegrating, and the Iraqis are not better off today than they were before the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime," said Mohammed Kamal, a professor of political science at Cairo University. "The Americans don't have a plan on how to get out of this mess that they put themselves in."

Most Arab governments, especially those enjoying close ties with Washington, maintained a studied silence on Iraq, trying to avoid either alienating the Bush administration or fomenting anger at home. There was a scattering of official statements, including one from the Arab League, calling for a greater United Nations role in restructuring Iraq and protecting its civilians.

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Iraq returns to life as a rogue nation, albeit one that is friendly to the united states, and it's other nations in the region that are going to pay the price.

If it becomes an islamic state along the lines of Irans it will create problems for all the current secular states.

I do hope we figure something out, but I suspect we won't.

Bryant
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Bush has unleashed 'demons' that can't be put back in the bottle.
Accident? I wonder....