Archivado en: internacional | escrito por goleech | 07/23/2005 | 19:56
La guerra ilegal de Iraq ha sido la mejor arma propagandística de Al-Qaeda y el extremismo radical. Lo que suponía ser un ataque veloz y certero, con la caída de Sadam Hussein, se ha convertido en un conflicto imposible de ganar, asegura el experimentado periodista en temas del Medio Oriente, Patrick Cockburn:
The suicide bombing campaign in Iraq is unique. Never before have so many fanatical young Muslims been willing to kill themselves, trying to destroy those whom they see as their enemies. On a single day in Baghdad this month 12 bombers blew themselves up. There have been more than 500 suicide attacks in Iraq over the last year.
Before Iraq, those who undertook suicide bombings were a small, hunted group; since the invasion they have become a potent force, their ideology and tactics adopted by militant Islamic groups around the world. Their numbers may still not be very large but they are numerous enough to create mayhem in Iraq and anywhere else they strike, be it in London or Sharm el Sheikh.
For future historians Iraq will probably replace Vietnam as the stock example of the truth of Wellington's dictum about small wars escalating into big ones. Ironically, the US and Britain pretended in 2003 that Saddam ruled a powerful state capable of menacing his neighbours. Secretly they believed this was untrue and expected an easy victory.
Now in 2005 they find to their horror that there are people in Iraq more truly dangerous than Saddam, and they are mired in an un-winnable conflict.
The Independent, 24 de julio de 2005