Between the withdrawal of U.S. forces and the continuing failure of Iraqi leaders to form new government, the level of despair in the country seems to be on the rise. In this article from Iraq’s Sotal Iraq, columnist Mahdi Qassem despairs of the helplessness of the average Iraqi, who from his point of view have been turned into subjects of a massive experiment, the beneficiaries of which reside chiefly in American think tanks and consultancies.
For Sotal Iraq, Mahdi Qassem writes in part
As the saying goes, “One man’s misfortune is another man’s blessing.” … There’s no doubt that Iraq and its people have suffered terribly, their country transformed into an active and effective laboratory. Strange and fantastic events beyond the imagination occur every day in Iraq. These include organized killings, untold physical damage and destruction, a growing scarcity of public services and bottlenecks in their delivery, the mockery by powerful politicians (though political mafia gangs) regarding the most basic humanitarian and national values and commitments, as well as a complete disregard for institutional responsibility. Iraqi leaders have turned their backs on a suffering population, allowing the unending expansion of chaos and destruction until it has spun completely out of control into something bigger than Iraq itself.
All of this will provide great material for strategic studies at the institutes of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, which will gain new and unconventional political expertise from the horrors of Iraq and the dark and surreal bleakness it has endured for the last seven years.
Because Iraq has been transformed into a unique American laboratory, its people like mice fighting one another for survival or to escape slow extinction. They compete, agitated and disturbed, as if they were aboard a ship listing and about to sink. There seems no hope for a near- or long-term breakthrough because of the dominance of criminal gangs and quasi-politicians. Meanwhile, the American administration observes Iraqi suffering with no apparent urgency to intervene and put an end to the contempt of Iraq’s political mafia gang leaders and the organized destruction of Iraq.
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