THIS EYE-RANIAN MESS

Malcom Lagauche

With all the chaos now in Iraq, many people have forgotten the beginning of hostilities between the U.S. and Iraq in January 1991. Like now, and for the past 15 years, the U.S. public was in a state of confusion. The same xenophobia and ethnocentrism that accompanied the U.S. soldier to Iraq in 2003 was solidly in place in 1991 as well. No matter where you were in the United States in the early evening of January 16, 1991, someone would enter and herald, "We’re bombing Baghdad." In the ensuing hours, most Americans were glued to their television sets or were listening to radios, trying to make sense of the varying reports...

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