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...read with incredulity Krauthammer's claim that antiwar demonstrators have "the historical memory of a gnat," along with his characterization of U.S. foreign policy toward the Arab world as one of having "kept its distance." Krauthammer neglects to mention the key role played by the U.S. in major events in the Middle East--the overthrow of democracy in Iran and the restoration of the Shah, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf War, to name a few. Perhaps it's Krauthammer who has memory problems. ANNA MARIA DIAMANTI New York City...
EDUCATION Once a destination for university students from all over the Arab world, Iraq now struggles to educate its own. A 2000 UNICEF survey found that a quarter of Iraq's children were not attending primary school...
IRAQ WAS CREATED out of three Ottoman Empire provinces-one dominated by Sunni Arabs, one by Shi'ite Arabs and one by Kurds. Saddam Hussein is from the Sunni Arab minority that controls the country today...
...Arab: 60% Sunni Arab: 20% Sunni Kurd: 17% Other...
...With the approach of war, a familiar recklessness boils up from the American id; you catch it, for example, in the talk-show braying about various ingeniously horrible ways that the U.S. ought to be torturing Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. (I have been trying to decide how much anti-Arab bigotry goes into this: Would the braying be as graphic and gleeful if the terrorist were a Whiffenpoof? Maybe...