YET MORE IRAQLINKS. Treat with the level of skepticism you believe they deserve.

Noli Irritare Leones on internal resistance against Milosevic. Great post and well worth your time, though something less than an example of “winning without war.”

Oxblog has news on humanitarian aid, maybe. Who knows.

Liberal Oasis takes a dim view of possibly conflicting signals about Basra. (Via Body and Soul.)

Light of Reason: China growls. Should be watched. IMO a reflection of the way war on Iraq (like the 9/11 attack) rips away the veils, revealing what has been there for some time. That could be very bad or it could be the best we could get from a bad situation, she said committally. (Via Unqualified Offerings.)

Rob Dakin writes: To answer the new question that you ask at the end of our exchange: Yes. There is no doubt that without the Baathist dictatorship of Saddam Hussein to hold it together, Iraq would disintegrate into its constituent demographic parts. Here again, Iraq would resemble Yugoslavia after Tito, and after the fall of the Soviet Union.

What I think we in the West must ask ourselves is this: if I were a Kurd, or a Sunni Muslim, or a southern Shi’ite, might I not prefer to live in a self-governing, autonomous region, rather than in some kind of cobbled together federal state, once again imposed by outside powers in order to preserve (or impose) a ‘stability’ that suits the demands of their New World Order?

We must not forget that Saddam and his fascist minions are merely taking advantage of national boundaries imposed by Europe.