Word: sectarian
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...count of the number of times Iraqis have told me, with biting sarcasm, that it's a little hard to appreciate the benefits of the new education system when schools and schoolbuses are regularly being bombed. They point out, too, that democracy has brought to power leaders who are sectarian partisans or kleptocrats, often both. Other new freedoms are appreciated, but not in the way you might expect. Satellite TV is nice to have when violence keeps you locked indoors for long stretches of time. When you do go out, a cellphone allows you to keep calling your family every...
...used to be. Many Iraqis now get less state-supplied electricity and water than they did under Saddam. Those who can afford it use private gas-powered generators, but the price of gas has grown manifold. Inflation is rampant: prices rose 70% last year. And quite apart from the sectarian violence, crime rates have soared...
Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith ’73 predicted that Iraq would not be able to weather the ongoing civil war and would eventually split along sectarian lines in a speech before an audience of sympathetic Fulbright alumni at the Kennedy School of Government on Saturday. Though the event on Saturday was a gathering of Fulbright alumni and current scholars, Galbraith—who was never a member of the Fulbright program—was invited because of his support for the program during his 14 years as a senior advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...Satterfield added that he believed the string of suicide bombings that killed dozens of pilgrims represented "a stepped-up effort by the al-Qaeda terror campaign, by elements of the Sunni insurgency, in trying to thwart the Baghdad security plan by inflaming sectarian violence, by provoking the death squads back into action...
...Satterfield spoke to reporters in Washington and seemed to be talking primarily to Americans. He said he'd seen one glimmer of good news since the Baghdad security crackdown began: the level of sectarian execution-style killings was "to the lowest level since early spring of last year," he said. "That's a positive thing, but it needs to be sustained...