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01/30/2004 Archived Entry: "Iraq Beginning to Become a Normal Society"

Posted by steve @ 03:19 AM EST [Link]

DEPENDS ON WHAT NORMAL MEANS: Amir Taheri says that Iraq is becoming a normal nation despite what you've been told.

At a radio phone-in program the other day I was taken to task by some listeners for what they believed is Iraq’s “slide into chaos.” “You campaigned for the liberation of Iraq and now look what has happened!”

This was followed by a “what has happened” list of events that included Shiites demonstrating, Kurds asking for autonomy, Sunnis sulking, and various political parties and groups tearing each other apart in the Iraqi media over the shape of the future constitution.

The truth, however, is that, far from sliding into chaos or heading toward civil war, Iraq is beginning to become a normal society. And all normal societies face uncertainties just as do all normal human beings.

Read on.