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Iraq’s Civil War and Ours
Iraq Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki writes eloquently today in the Wall Street Journal:
Americans keen to understand the ongoing struggle for a new Iraq can be guided by the example of their own history. In the 1860s, your country fought a great struggle of its own, a civil war that took hundreds of thousands of lives but ended in the triumph of freedom and the birth of a great power. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation signaled the destruction of the terrible institution of slavery, and the rise of a country dedicated, more than any other in the world of nation-states then and hence, to the principle of human liberty.
Our struggle in Iraq is similar to the great American quest, and is perhaps even more complicated.
This is a moving plea for us to not lose our national will in Iraq. To leave Iraq now would be a failure of charity–no, it would be a betrayal of the Iraqi people and freedom-loving peoples everywhere.
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