25 July 2006
Pandaemonium
Those who agree with Peter Galbraith’s op-ed in the New York Times of 25 July 2006 include Lawrence O’Donnell. He was at one time a legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who wrote a brilliant survey of the breakup of multiethnic societies, includingYugoslavia, in 1993: Pandaemonium. Perhaps O’Donnell had something to do with that book.
One of Galbraith’s conclusions is that Iraq ought to devolve into three separate entities, including a Kurdistan where the U.S. military should be installed, Shia and Sunni states. As O’Donnell said today on the Al Franken Show, people pretty much accepted the disappearance of Yugoslavia because it became evident that it didn’t make sense. What he didn’t say was that the only person to whom it made sense was Tito—it fed his megalomania.
The same was true of Saddam and his predecessors, beginning with King Faysal. Although Saddam’s brutality may have provided some justification for the U.S. invasion, the melting away of the authoritarian regime that was holding together a country of warring factions may be the serendipitous result of the neocon war on Iraq.
Those who agree with Peter Galbraith’s op-ed in the New York Times of 25 July 2006 include Lawrence O’Donnell. He was at one time a legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who wrote a brilliant survey of the breakup of multiethnic societies, includingYugoslavia, in 1993: Pandaemonium. Perhaps O’Donnell had something to do with that book.
One of Galbraith’s conclusions is that Iraq ought to devolve into three separate entities, including a Kurdistan where the U.S. military should be installed, Shia and Sunni states. As O’Donnell said today on the Al Franken Show, people pretty much accepted the disappearance of Yugoslavia because it became evident that it didn’t make sense. What he didn’t say was that the only person to whom it made sense was Tito—it fed his megalomania.
The same was true of Saddam and his predecessors, beginning with King Faysal. Although Saddam’s brutality may have provided some justification for the U.S. invasion, the melting away of the authoritarian regime that was holding together a country of warring factions may be the serendipitous result of the neocon war on Iraq.
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