Those hoping for a happy outcome in Iraq would be advised to avoid this article by Iraqi columnist Khadir Taahar. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the very pro-American Taahar is not optimistic, particularly with U.S. forces pulling out. With nationwide elections only days away, the picture he paints of Iraq’s leaders does not suggest a bright future for the country.
For Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper, columnist Khadir Taahar writes in part:
In Iraq, children are reared in a high-pressure atmosphere where feelings and individuality aren’t respected. And this is repeated throughout school, in universities and society. Thus, in the jargon of psychoanalysis, the individual is afflicted by “psychological emasculation.” Even if someone has the highest level of education and culture, they are psychologically crippled by years of this brutal treatment. It is very difficult for mentally-balanced political figures with good leadership qualities to emerge under such circumstances, let alone exhibit the virtues of an exceptional humanitarian!
Then describing the leaders that Iraq possesses, Khadir Taahar writes:
Of course, a distinction must be made between people with real leadership skills and aggressive figures who succeed in demonizing another group of people, such as [Iraqi President] Jalal al Talabani, [President of the Iraqi Kurdistan] Massoud Barzani, Saddam Hussein, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Hafez al-Assad and others. These aren’t national heroes, but the psychologically and mentally diseased, controlled by criminal tendencies and the wish to dominate and abuse. Hiding their bellicosity behind bright slogans, they find an opening in the world of politics.
Iraqis are always controlled by their emotions, for they consider it wise and clever to be careless and shirk responsibility. Thus they avoid confronting problems and crisis. Such a society will inevitably be governed by mafias and led by thieves, murderers and their agents, who transform their followers into flocks of sheep, leave the people lost and the nation ruined.
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