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Friday, 19 January 2007

Report from Baghdad: Iraqi voices
Michelle Malkin

Today on Hot Air TV, our second report from Baghdad highlights Iraqi voices.

Bryan writes about the kids in the slums and the Oil for Food legacy in Iraq.

Both the troops and Iraqis we met stressed the importance of jobs as a preventive measure against militia and insurgency recruitment. This jibes with the sentiments in a good article in the New York Times yesterday on efforts to reopen Iraqi factories in Ramadi:

“Any opportunity to re-employ more people and give the government a chance to get income from these factories is important,” said Sheik Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi, an Anbar tribal leader, as he toured the porcelain and tile factories in his flowing black-and-gold robes. “Especially in this time when Anbar is experiencing terrorism.”

The sheik added, in reference to the idle Iraqis who put the unemployment rate at anywhere from an estimated 30 percent to 60 percent, “They are normal human beings — they would rather work than make violence.”

The concern, of course, is that you can't put the economic revitalization cart before the security horse--which is why executing the surge and clear-and-hold plans successfully is so key. ...

Posted by Bill Faith on January 19, 2007 at 12:22 PM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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