8.05.2008

Muqtada al-Sadr Produces Brochure on New Army

See paragraph four.

Brochure aside, can't we do something like this with our military? Something about beating swords into plowshares...

1 comment:

Greg said...

It would be a good step in that country if it actually happened. Depends on whether they actually lay down arms, as well as people's willingness to accept a historically militant organization as a political and social player. Hezbollah has been operating as both for years in Lebanon, and the international community seems reluctant to recognized them under their new "non-militant" banner. Given that skepticism, it remains to be seen how committed they are to continuing to operate as non-militants. With the US still basically in charge in Iraq, I wonder about the level of acceptance of a non-militant Mahdi Army.