"Iraqis
are always controlled by their emotions, for they consider it wise and clever
to be careless and avoid responsibility. … Such a society will inevitably be governed
by mafias and led by thieves, murderers and their agents, who transform their followers
into flocks of sheep, leave the people lost and the nation ruined."
On every occasion and in
every occurrence, there is opportunity.
One can see the tragedy of Iraq
in its orphaned people. Lost and desolate, Iraq is bereft of a single revered
national symbol to rally behind. Among thriving peoples, the nation gives birth
to symbols in decisive moments of national history: France gave birth De
Gaulle, Britain to Churchill, America to George Washington and India to Gandhi.
Israel gives birth to national symbols almost every day, people like David Ben Gurion, Moshe Dayan, and others.
But who are the symbols of Iraq, a nation that has suffered such momentous catastrophe?
I've touched on this problem
before, and some of the causes can be attributed to the nature of the family
and social institutions among the Iraqi people. In Iraq, children are reared in
a high-pressure atmosphere where feelings and individuality aren't respected,
and this is repeated throughout school, in universities and society.
Thus, in the jargon of
psychoanalysis, the individual is afflicted by “psychological emasculation.” Even
if someone has the highest level of education and culture, they are psychologically
crippled by years of this brutal treatment. It is very difficult for mentally-balanced
political figures with good leadership qualities to emerge under such circumstances,
let alone exhibit the virtues of an exceptional humanitarian!
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Of course, a distinction
must be made between people with real leadership skills and aggressive figures who succeed in
demonizing another group of people, such as [Iraqi President]Jalal
al Talabani, [President of the Iraqi Kurdistan] Massoud Barzani, Saddam
Hussein, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Hafez al-Assad and
others. These aren't national heroes, but the psychologically and mentally diseased,
controlled by criminal tendencies and the wish to dominate and abuse. Hiding their
bellicosity behind bright slogans, they find an opening in the world of politics.
Iraq has an aggressive, skeptical
society that suffers from the almost complete absence of a sound, patriotic and
peaceful political education. In such a society, its loyalties torn by
sectarian, ethnic, partisan and other differences, it is only natural to find
sterility and the absence of noble national symbols to lead the people and country
toward security, stability, reconstruction and development. We are a people tossed
to and fro amid the wind and waves.
Perhaps the villains, thieves,
criminals and murderers that have had the temerity to raid the field of Iraqi politics
and have reached the highest levels of government and parliament explain our woeful
political elite. Perhaps this illustrates one of Iraqi society's greatest crises.
Namely, without a spirit capable of responding to challenges and overcoming
catastrophe in a creative, principled way, a society dies. Ours is a society which
is broken and cannot defend itself.
Iraqis are always controlled
by their emotions, for they consider it wise and clever to be careless and shirk
responsibility. Thus they avoid confronting problems and crisis. Such a society
will inevitably be governed by mafias and led by thieves, murderers and their agents,
who transform their followers into flocks of sheep, leave the people lost and
the nation ruined.
