What is it about the Brits?


Middle East journalism has Robert Fisk and "Security Studies" has Paul Rogers whose articles appear in opendemocracy.net . He is a Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University in the UK. His latest piece argues that Al Qaida has morphed and developed over the last 7 years into a much more formidable enemy than it was in the beginning. The US has played into its hands with its foolish invasion of Iraq, its torturing of Iraqi prisoners, the massive killing of civilians, the collapse of civilian infrastructure, the electoral success of the Shias, the failure to impose "order" in the cities, and on and on. While the collapse of Iraq continues, Afghanistan returns to the control of the drug warlords and Pakistan hovers on the brink of another coup with the prospect of Islamic fundamentalists gaining control of nuclear weapons. Rogers calmly takes us through all this turmoil and lays it out as he sees it without nationalistic propaganda or partisanship.

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Posted: Wed - April 11, 2007 at 08:58 PM        

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