Word: makiya
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Makiya holds firm to his belief that sectarian divisions were not inevitable, that things could have gone otherwise...
Ignatieff and Makiya both supported the war at the time of the invasion, but Ignatieff has since recanted his endorsement...
...Makiya, he said, “has stood for his convictions, and paid the price for his convictions, and has always, in every way, behaved in an honorable manner...
...Makiya speaks sternly of the mistakes made by the American administration—and by policy advisors such as himself—in de-Baathfication and the disbanding of the Iraqi army. But he saves his harshest criticism for his old friends, the Iraqi expats he had trusted to help unite the country. Instead of bringing the nation together, Ahmed Chalabi and other friends fell into sectarian politics and power struggles...
...Makiya is not sure if he will ever return to live in his home country. He cannot begin building his museum in Baghdad until the sectarian violence comes...