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June 18, 2005
Simon Jeffery: 'The War That Will Not End'
Simon Jeffery at Guardian Unlimited Newsblog thinks "The three-week invasion that ended with US troops toppling Saddam's statue in Baghdad is in danger of turning into a three-year crisis: more than 900 people killed since May 3 and thousands more before. The peace studies professor Paul Rogers, writing on the excellent Open Democracy, calls it an "unwinnable war", he wrote in a June 17, 2005 post, adding: "The Abu Ghraib prison abuses and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's murderous campaigns will sear the conflict into the history books for a while to come."
"Another factor has been the refusal of the war's original opponents, and those who came on board later, to let go of the arguments," Mr. Jeffery opined. He said "The war has remained roughly as important as they wanted it to as the relentless questioning of the motives and methods of the political leaders who started it has, in Britain at least, been a dominant thread of recent politics." And they will continue to be questioned as the futility of the war becomes more evident. See "The war that will not end" for more of Mr. Jeffery's post.
Posted by Munir Umrani at June 18, 2005 05:46 AM
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