One day, the people of the world will want peace so much that the government are going to have to get out their way and let them have it--------Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tomorrow, I am gonna give a speech about Unity and Diversity, which is a very big and tough topic, in the process of preparing the script, I have read many materials about politics, economy, culture, philosophy and ideology. When I was collecting info about the Irap War,which is basically worsened by the intolerance between Sunnis and Shiites. In fact, The current condition greatly resembles the situation in the Post-World One Irap. Back then the British were handed Mesopotamia as a world war I spoil. And they ran into the same mess which are facing by the US now. While the US politician are wondering how to dealing with the problem. A senior British diplomat long ago figured out what has become one of the enduring dilemmas of Iraq: The presence of a foreign army can undermine efforts to establish a new government.Gertrude Bell,first British diplomat to Iraq, wrote that 85 years ago, she arrived in 1920 and discovered Iraq was split deeply along religious and ethnic lines, although in roles reversed from today's. The Sunnis then tried to keep the Shiites out the government, by doing nothing to conciliate the Shiahs.Sunnis today have accused the Shiites of doing the same thing to them. Under pressure from the British, the Sunnis put Shiites in a handful of nominal positions and a fragile government was seated.Today, the same thing are going on in Iraq, and there is no way the democracy can work out without the coorperation of the parties, they must pursue unity whiling maintaining diversity to generate a New Iraq.
3 comments:
well, Lance, I really like your article,as a native british,Gertrude Bell is one of the greatest woman whom i admire.for your information,Gertrude Bellwas the daughter of one of the wealthiest families of late 19th century England, ironmasters, founders of vast chemical and aluminium industries, the first woman to obtain a first-class degree in modern history at Oxford, the first woman in British history to be made an officer of the military intelligence service, king maker and power broker of Iraq in the years that followed the end of the First World War and the break up of the Ottoman Empire.
Hope to read more of your insights about history.
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pursue unity whiling maintaining diversity，good idea!
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