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Horfði á ótrúlega góða mynd í gærkvöldi.....myndina Britz, sem er í tveimur hlutum og fjallar um ung systkini af pakistönskum uppruna sem eru að reyna að fóta sig í sínu heimalandi Bretlandi. Ætla ekkert að tala neitt frekar um hana hér en mæli með henni!

Var að lesa Guardian og rakst á góða grein um forsendur Breta fyrir innrásinni inn í Írak:

If the government ever answers calls for a full-scale inquiry into the policy discussions that led to the invasion of Iraq, there is a danger that it will focus on WMDs, or blunders such as the failure to control mass looting or the decision to dissolve the Iraqi army. But what about the serious lapses in political analysis? It is often argued that the occupation stumbled because of a lack of prewar planning, but the real problem was a failure to comprehend that western armies cannot successfully take over Arab countries and force them to run along western lines. The occupation was doomed from the start. No matter how efficient, sensitive, generous and intelligent the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) had been, it could not have succeeded. Occupations are inherently humiliating. People prefer to run their own affairs; they resent foreigners taking over their country. A foreign army that topples a regime needs to leave within weeks or at most months. Otherwise, suspicion will grow quickly that the foreigners' real aims are imperial - to run the country directly or through the locals they put in charge, and to exploit its resources. Nowhere is this truer than in the Middle East, where feelings of dignity, honour, sovereignty and humiliation are the currency of daily life.

Restina má finna á http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2244183,00.html

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