I'm quite pleased about Basra,I think the British might have done a clever thing, by rapidly enaging with local tribal leaders, to create a interim administration.
It's going to make it much harder to justify a US General running the country, if it's shown that Iraqis can do the job already.
/policywonk
(It's going to make it much harder to justify a US General running the country, if it's shown that Iraqis can do the job already.
/policywonk
Pootle,
Tue 8 Apr 2003, 23:37,
archived)