Prof. M. S. Megalommatis, The 27 Key Points for US Success in Iraq - 11 January 2005

Excerpts from the far-seeing article which was proved correct: The American administration must not seek impossible solutions in Iraq; as a non-colonial power, the US cannot just replace Britain or France in areas of the colonized Middle East. The US must bring down the colonial structures, and firstly the ominous Arab nationalism. Mesopotamia is falsely called ’Iraq’, and the local Arameans were never Arabs. ............ Iraq does not exist; it never did! After 1258 (the destruction of Baghdad) the area belonged to various successive administrations with faraway capitals (Istanbul). Earlier, Baghdad, as capital of the Islamic Caliphate, did not rule only the area of Mesopotamia, but a much larger one. As concept, Iraq is a colonial technical entity, and nothing more. ........................ Education must prevail over barbarism, and this applies mostly to the Arabic speaking Shia and Sunni groups of population that had systematically been victimized by the colonials through the diffusion among them of fal