[Dean's World] Aziz P: discussing Iraq without the baggage

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Posted by Aziz P:
discussing Iraq without the baggage
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1169883496.shtml


   At Nation-Building, I [1]tried to seed a discussion about Iraq with
   the following constraints:

     I'd like to discuss Iraq for once, without mentioning Saddam, Bush,
     WMD, or neocons. I'd like to discuss Iraq, for once, without
     mentioning Democrats or Republicans, or invoking a concept like
     "victory" whose meaning is completely variable depending on which
     particular intersection of competing interests you choose to
     embrace. I'd like to discuss Iraq without nebulous worrying about a
     Shi'a Crescent. I'd like to discuss Iraq without hearing about
     Democracy, or about Israel, or America. Iraq is Iraq. Can we have
     that discussion, or are we too bound up in our interests outside
     Iraq to discuss Iraq, for its own sake?

   [2]Click over to NB to see some questions I came up with that I think
   met these constraints, and my own answers. I am not optimistic about
   this experiment but I feel it's worth a shot. I would like to see what
   we Esmayites come up with too. What do you think?

References

   1. http://dean2004.blogspot.com/2007/01/discussing-future-of-iraq-without.html
   2. http://dean2004.blogspot.com/2007/01/discussing-future-of-iraq-without.html