Fisk: "We shelter behind the myth that progress is being made"

[reprehensor]

We shelter behind the myth that progress is being made

By Robert Fisk

06/23/05 "The Independent" - - So we are going to support the myth. As the headless bodies are found along the Tigris, as the mortuaries fill up, as the American dead grow far beyond 1,700 - and, let us remember, the Iraqi dead go into the tens of thousands - Europe and the rest of the world still support the American project.

The Brussels summit was - and of course I quote our good friend Mr Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations - "a clear sign that the international community will be determined and dedicated to on the tough walk ahead".

You can say "tough" again. How many suicide bombers have now immolated themselves against the Americans and their mercenaries and the new Iraqi army and the new Iraqi police force and their recruits? The figure appears to stand at around 420. Back in the days of Hizbollah's war against Israeli occupation in Lebanon, a suicide bomber a month was regarded as phenomenal.

In the Palestinian "intifada", one a week was amazing. But in Iraq, we reach seven a day; Wal-Mart suicide bombing that raises the darkest questions about out ability to crush the uprising.

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[Eloriel]

1. You need to fix your link n/t

[reprehensor]

2. This one works.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9247.htm

[Matilda]

3. Looks as if US pressure has got to Annan.

He was right, back then in 2003. Now he's cringing. Sad.