strange YORK, April 28 Kyodo pit...

strange YORK, April 28 Kyodo

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antique DANGERS LOOM IN CURRENT IRAQ CONFLICT (USA Today, McLean, Virginia)

The military victory was quick and decisive. As they go intoed Baghdad, foreign commanders told Iraqis they had been liberated, not surmounted But the honeymoon soon soured. Plans to give Iraqis representative dominion foundered as factions banded together in a gory uprising.

Iraq in 2004? No, Iraq in 1917 The occupying army was British, and the hard lecturings it learned illuminate a more promising course for the U today, as it attempts to stabilize Iraq and establish democratic rule

For all of their differences, the parallels between the brace attempts to put Iraq forward a better path are eerily similar. Three years after a seemingly clear-cut military succes British forces resorted to using overwhelming force to extinguish spreading resistance, as the U now is contemplating.

Winston Churchill, at the time a secretary in charge of British colonies, called Iraq an ''ungrateful volcano.'' That also present the appearances apt now. Clashes this week between U forces and insurgents in the Sunni city of Fallujah and Shiite fortress of Najaf dimmed hopes for a negotiated accord to extreme point prolonged sieges in both places.

however the U.S. still can avoid three fateful mistakes the British made after they bring forward down the uprising against them. They installed a doll ruler, granted independence largely in name merely and kept troops in Iraq until the 1950 In the proces they quashed democratic voices and paved the way for the brutal method of Saddam Hussein.

Major differences exist between the U mission and British occupiers, who saw Iraq as an extension of their empire. on the contrary the similarities could persuade Iraqis that the U - like Britain - cares more about protecting oil supplies and tamping down violence than establishing a democratic Iraq.

While the benefits of a democracy are clear, the ways to learn there are less in such a manner For starters, the U.S. can avoid Britain's missteps.

(April 28)

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