The new Iraq: a fraught but worthy adventure in nation-building

[enigma000]

http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/dec05/rae.pdf

ACTUALITÉS
From North America, the news from Iraq seems not just overwhelmingly violent and negative but — except for the occasional glimmer of change — hopeless. For former Ontario Premier Bob Rae, Iraq has become something else altogether. Rae has been acting as a constitutional adviser to the Iraqi Parliament, and writes that
despite the violence in the war-ravaged state, progress is being made. Rae says that “the establishment of a stable, secure state is in the broad interest of all countries, including Canada,” and that, ”Deep instability anywhere can pose a threat to Canada’s security.” There are no “countries far away of which we know little,” to borrow Neville Chamberlain’s unfortunate 1938 phrase.

[eridani]

1. I'd call it a criminal enterprise, myself.

If stability and security are the prime goals, Iraq had that under Saddam. Along with the usual oppression of course, but what has changed?