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Is it time for Nigeria to be “balkanized”? I was listening to thisWeek on ABC and of all people, George Will called for the creation of more as much three new nations out of the present day Iraq since they are not really a country to begin with. Sounds familiar. Another British mess.
His own words
quote: "Iraq is not a real nation, shouldn't be a nation. Yugoslavia wasn't a nation, and we found that out as soon as the tyranny that held it together was loosened. The Soviet Union wasn't a nation, [and] we found that out as soon as it flew apart, given a chance. Iraq is in the process of flying apart. "Ask yourselves this," Will added, " 'Is there a majority in Iraq that the rest of Iraq would consent to be governed by?' "
Sign of Trouble This Week Roundtable: Iraq Blast May Herald Worsening Reverberations
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Aug. 31 — The deadly bombing of a mosque in Najaf, Iraq, will have consequences for both the U.S. mission, and for Iraq's own intra-ethnic relations, ABCNEWS analysts said.
Calling the Najaf bombing "an enormous political setback," ABCNEWS' Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International', said on ABCNEWS' This Week's Roundtable: "In many ways, it is worse than the U.N. bombing, because politically our hope of stabilizing Iraq rested upon the support of the Shia, who are 60 percent of Iraq." Zakaria said the bombing raises the prospects of significant ethnic rivalry, as Shiite muslim population may blame the Sunnis. He predicted anti-Americanism rising even further as a consequence of the bombing. ‘Iraq Is Not a Real Nation’ ABCNEWS' George Will called the bombing proof that, "Iraq is not a real nation, shouldn't be a nation. Yugoslavia wasn't a nation, and we found that out as soon as the tyranny that held it together was loosened. The Soviet Union wasn't a nation, [and] we found that out as soon as it flew apart, given a chance. Iraq is in the process of flying apart. "Ask yourselves this," Will added, " 'Is there a majority in Iraq that the rest of Iraq would consent to be governed by?' " Joe Klein of Time magazine called Iraq, "the worst foreign policy crisis, the most difficult foreign policy moment, that this country has faced since Vietnam." Zakaria said, "We needed a lot more force, we needed it much earlier on, and this occupation needs to look a lot less Americanized." George Will said retreat is not an option: "What we learned is that the vacuum of what we now call the failed state is something that nature abhors, and into [which] flows al Qaeda and the rest. We are not going to leave. … but we have to understand that all of our vocabulary of democracy simply does not fit this when there is no majority that a minority will consent to be governed by." Klein believes the Bush administration is going to dramatically reassess some of its positions in Iraq, noting the Pentagon miscalculated what would happen in a post-war Iraq. He said that a different agency should take responsibility for the non-military aspects of the reconstruction. Klein added that the United States should enlist Iraqi soldiers to guard borders, pipelines, electric lines and neighborhoods. ‘Dean’s Fun’ Klein said the ultimate decisions likely will reverberate in the 2004 presidential election, arguing that the Democrats wrongly thought the election was going to be fought on the economy, when it's actually "going to be about George W. Bush's foreign policy." "It's almost never the economy in this country that people vote on," Will said. "They vote on larger questions of national character and value." Of Democratic candidate Howard Dean's apparent surge in the primary polls, Will said, "It's so obvious we just won't talk about it. Dean's fun. Who's active in politics this time of the election cycle? Some people collect stamps, some people go fly fishing, other people do politicking for the fun of it, and this guy's fun." Zakaria warned there's danger for the Democrats "if the fun goes on too long," noting the Dean position on foreign policy is not an attractive one, once you get to the general election. "The last time the Democrats ran against a war was in 1972 and they were running against the most unpopular war in American history," Zakaria said, "and they carried one state." As to whether Gen. Wesley Clark might enter the race, Fareed Zakaria said, "I don't think he will get in," adding that he though Clark really "wants to be vice president."
ABCNEWS' Caroline Cooper contributed to this report.
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Ednut, Richard Hallbrook made a similar remark on fox. He actually called it the "churchillian mistake" of 1921. Well, it wasn't a mistake but rather a well calculated set up by the evil coniving vampire bats of Britain. I wonder why the West allowed Uguslavia, soviet union and other similar incompatible unions to balkanize while joining forces with murderers to keep the abomination called nigeria.
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The answer to your question is that the crazy situation in nigeria gives the white man the opportunity to continue to write off the entire black race. But there are reasons why the world is contemptous of blacks, and they're all there for all to see in today's BiafraNigeria. The question is who's responsible for the image problem and lack of trust that things will ever get better for blacks here? We certainly cannot put the blame on Biafra; it already has a reputation for inventions and hard work.
Tear Down the Evil british empire called nigeria.
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