Word: arabism
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From the crumbling Assyrian ramparts of Kirkuk's 3,000-year-old citadel, the giant open-air market snaking around its base seems the very picture of communal harmony: Kurdish, Turkoman and Arab shoppers navigate through narrow lanes, past stalls selling everything from fresh fruit to plastic flowers. My police escort, a Kurd, beams down with pride. "This is the perfect Iraq," he says. "Nobody angry, everybody happy...
...acrimonious exchanges between Maliki and the Kurds are rooted in the economic and territorial ambitions of both parties, and they threaten to widen the broadening Arab-Kurd schism. Maliki's recent call to amend the constitution to beef up the central government's powers at the expense of Iraq's 18 provinces did not spare the semiautonomous three-province Kurdish region in the north. It has not only stoked tensions with the independence-minded Kurds but has also drawn fire from his Shi'ite coalition allies in the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, who want to set up a similar semiautonomous...
...America needs to deliver a Marshall Plan to the Arab world - not in the form of money to rebuild war-torn cities but in the form of ideas to rebuild violence-torn minds. We have no alternative. In my yard there are stubborn patches of crabgrass. It's tempting to take a weed whacker and chop them down, but the crabgrass comes back twice as strong unless you get at its roots...
...root causes of fanaticism aren't a mystery. Some are external, like the rigid political oppression that exists in almost every Arab country. Some are internal, lying in the endemic ignorance and lack of education in those societies. Both can be changed, however slow and difficult the process...
...real reason the surge worked in Iraq is that it first brought an end to violence in Baghdad neighborhoods. Then American soldiers kept watch while the Iraqis themselves nourished their own peace. America has an enormous advantage in the Arab world: the moderates vastly outnumber the fanatics. On their own, these moderates haven't had the power or influence to change the hearts and minds of the whole population, however. The guns on both sides have been too loud...