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...invert the old proverb, what comes down must go up. More than a week since the liberation of Baghdad, the military preeminence of the Anglo-American coalition in Iraq seems assured. Saddam Hussein??€™s regime has fallen and will never again oppress the Iraqi people. The real challenge for America, however, is not the toppling of a tinpot director—a military triumph for the mightiest army the world has ever seen was never in doubt—but the forging of a stable country in the wake of Saddam’s departure...
...images of impassioned Iraqis taking sledgehammers to a statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad flooded the airwaves on Wednesday. Meanwhile, headlines worldwide proclaimed that Hussein??€™s Baghdad had fallen. But the statue’s destruction—which U.S. marines, using a cable fixed to a tank, eventually helped to orchestrate—hardly indicates the dawning of a new age of democracy. An Iraqi reenactment of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this was not. As British journalist James Bays told the Washington Post, “Total control has been replaced by sheer anarchy...
...reports out of Baghdad since Wednesday have revealed, policing the streets, hunting down loyalists and putting an end to the looting will be America’s first order of business. Of course, it would be unrealistic to expect the mechanisms for democratic self-rule to be installed instantly. Hussein??€™s centralized regime, a decade of sanctions and now weeks of bombing campaigns have left Iraq in a humanitarian and infrastructural crisis. Now that war on Bush’s terms is a reality—quickly becoming a done deal—it is no longer useful...
Third, disarming Iraq may now prove more complicated, more dangerous—and suddenly even more imperative. The toppling of Hussein??€™s regime was supposed to make the world a safer place, yet Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have not materialized. If they exist—and I will not venture to suppose that they don’t—what is to stop them now from ending up in the hands of terrorists, who prior to Hussein??€™s removal remained at cross-purposes to the regime’s stated goals...
This is a long way from Saddam Hussein??€™s puppet assembly and Bush’s State of the Union Address. The very awkwardness and tedium of Congressional debates will help to convince the viewer that what they’re seeing is real, unprogrammed, open government. Just as it convinced the world of our military might, the unflinching eye of the camera can convince the world that democracy actually works...