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Blog of Adam Daifallah -- author, journalist, law student. Lover of politics, writing, golf, curling, fitness, fashion, bacon and maple products -- not necessarily (but probably) in that order. Partisan of the Anglosphere. Contact me via email at adam@daifallah.com. This summer I am joined by Keir Wilmut and Omar Soliman.
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
The Chalabi comeback
Few politicians have been the target of as much ridicule and derision as Ahmad Chalabi. The Iraqi democrat, who has given his life to the cause of a free Iraq, is the enemy of the tyrants who rule the Arab lands, leftwing academics and journalists and other defenders of the Middle East status quo, and for the last couple of years, high-ranking officials of the U.S. government.
But over the last few months, Chalabi, now Iraq's deputy Prime Minister, has been vindiciated. His erstwhile American enemies have now realized that he is one of the most important figures in post-Saddam Iraq. Today, Chalabi is in Washington meeting Condi Rice and Donald Rumsfeld, amongst other administration figures.
Churchill's famous words are apt here: "Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 9:06 AM
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