Monday, June 02, 2003

What's Really Happening In Iraq?

Mark Steyn (who we're glad is still in business) reports on how well things are actually going, contrary to what is commonly reported in the media. So what's the real danger, then?

...the new imperial class are the NGOs. They shuttle across the globe, mingling with their own kind - other SUV users - and bringing with them the values of the mother country, or the mother bureaucracy. Like many imperialists, they're well-meaning: they see their charges as helpless and dependent, which happy condition has the benefit of justifying an ever-growing aid bureaucracy in perpetuity. It will be very destructive for Iraq if the tentativeness of the American administration in Baghdad allows the ambulance-chasers of the NGOs to sink their fangs into the country.

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