

“Gone was the slightest implication of compassion if it had ever existed before. “I have seen young boys burned alive,” he said. “I have seen Iranian and Iraqi boys tearing each other literally with their nails and teeth. It is raging hate against raging hate.”
― Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq
― Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq

“Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and fundamental categories it is conducted in.”
― Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq
― Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq

“In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by “its” regime. This was an outcome of statification, party growth, and all the other indices that have been discussed.442 The dissolution of Iraqi identity is the most fundamental explanation for why no connection existed in Baʿthist Iraq between military achievements and extending or withholding political allegiance.”
― Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq
― Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq

“The intimate connection between war and citizenship lies at the heart of the modern state,” Fouad ‘Ajami wrote of the 1967 defeat.”
― Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq
― Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq

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