DOING IT RIGHT IN IRAQ (Opinion)
US News & World Report - 9/30/03
"In Baghdad alone, polls show about two thirds of the people want us to stay."
-- Mortimer Zuckerman
President Bush got a cold reception at the United Nations General Assembly, but he is unquestionably right to reject calls for a swift handover of power in Iraq. Some perspective is required. It took seven years to transfer power in Bosnia--the same as it did for Japan from 1945. The U.N. has been in Kosovo four years, with no prospect of withdrawal. The success in tiny East Timor required two years. So who could imagine we would restore normality so swiftly in Iraq, a large, fractured society that has been physically and mentally tortured for decades?
Mortimer Zuckerman on doing it right in Iraq:
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15504a86786a170716372a7
IMHO, I think the solution in Iraq involves the following: the President of the US should secretly assemble about 50 of the world best known Iraqi's that are experts in humanitarian issues like psychiatry, theology, sociology, Iraqi culture and literature and history and the like. These men and women should lock themselves away somewhere with the task: How Do We Save Iraq? How do we save democracy, religious freedom, women's rights, peace, Iraqi independence and dignity? Therein lies the solution IMHO.
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