This link comes courtesy of my friend Richard Samuels, an expert in all things Japanese at MIT. If it is already widely known, sorry; it was news to me.
It is a "debate" on Al Jazeera between a prominent Sunni and a prominent Shiite Iraqi over the execution of Saddam Hussein.
Watch this to the end -- just over four minutes, but well spent -- and think again of the
benchmarks President Bush has set for America's continued commitment to Iraq. A crackdown on sectarian militias, a fair sharing of oil revenues, a general sense of national concord.
Watch, and wonder. The link is
here.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2007/01/a-four-minute-rebuttal-to-the-quot-surge-quot-plan/7509/