Mark Phillips: The American Question

8/18/03: Not the nation-building they had in mind.

When American neo-cons began their adventure in Iraq, this is not the kind of nation-building they had in mind.

"A popular Sunni Muslim cleric has provided grass-roots and financial support to a leading anti-American Shiite cleric, a rare example of cooperation across Iraq's sectarian divide that has alarmed U.S. officials for its potential to bolster festering resistance to the American occupation, senior U.S. and Iraqi officials say."

"Festering" is an understatement. The resistance is becoming endemic: learning the techniques necessary to counter American technological superiority while broadening the popular mobilization and maturing their organizational cohesion. The revolt is becoming revolution.

Will a new Iraqi nationalism emerge from post-colonial fragmentation? If yes, they'll have Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld and their peculiar, arrogant gang to thank.

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