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Extracts from editorials around the world
The New York Times, USA
The first days of the war in Iraq were so smooth, Americans might have been forgiven for imagining that the conflict would be clean and relatively free of casualties. Then over the weekend, they were faced with battlefield death, human error and other tragedies. The task of beating back Iraq's best troops and capturing Baghdad while keeping the rest of the country under control looks increasingly formidable.
The days ahead will indicate whether the American decision to press ahead with a relatively small invasion force supported by overwhelming air and missile power was a wise one. The advantage of the strategy is speed it avoids the need to wait months for a huge buildup of troops and armour. The downside is the lack of security in the rear of the invasion force. The dangers are not only to American troops and humanitarian workers, but also to the Iraqi civilians living in towns where order may break down and long-repressed ethnic or religious tensions could explode.
The Arab News, Saudi Arabia
Rumsfeld's newfound affection for the Geneva Convention is remarkable The US does not believe that the prisoners now being held at Guantanamo Bay are prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention. Pictures of the men there, shackled and living in cages, were distributed by the Bush administration to the world's media.
Real war is an ugly business, and the US is now engaged in a real, complex war.
The Frontier Post, Pakistan
There was little doubt that the overwhelming military and technological superiority of the invaders makes the outcome of this totally unequal battle pre-
dictable. Thoughts must now turn, or at least begin turning over the next few days, towards what will follow inside Iraq. A temporary lull may be enforceable by force of American and British arms. But whether it will propel Iraq into the kind of neocolony the invaders want to have open to the rapaciousness of their respective capitals must remain open to question.
The Korea Herald, South Korea
Not only Iraq but the entire world was shocked and awed literally. The global village witnessed America's awesome military might as a thousand missiles pounded Baghdad last Saturday, as if to realise a doomsday prophesy.
There is little doubt the majority of South Koreans including, of course, the staunch anticommunist conservatives welcome President Roh's lastminute decision to support President George W. Bush's campaign to disarm Saddam Hussein. In an obvious gesture to soothe the misgivings in Washington about his foreign policy, Roh announced last week that he supports the war and plans to send up to 700 noncombat troops, including some 600 engineers and 100 medical personnel.
We hope that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il would "take the hint" from the US attack on Saddam Hussein. But we recommend against any consideration of "shock and awe" treatment for Pyongyang. "Peace-loving" South Koreans may also hope that President Bush and his policy advisors reconsider a preemptive strike as a means for 'regime change' in countries that are already impoverished under ruthless dictators."
The Asahi Shimbun, Japan
In launching the offensive, the United States and Britain ran roughshod over anti-war pro-
tests by France and other countries that had demanded continuation of the UN weapons inspection process. However, allowing the divisions between the United States and Europe to widen in these and other ways will be of no benefit to either side. While the United States and Britain are capable of advancing the bombing and other combat operations on their own, the demands of providing assistance to the refugees expected to result from the fighting and the postwar rebuilding process will exceed the resources of those two nations.
The proper course of action is not to widen the split between the United States and Europe. This would allow the war in Iraq to amplify the already troubling tendency of the Bush administration to thumb its nose at global opinion.
The New York Post, USA
America will not be able to claim victory in Iraq until it secures Saddam Hussein's missing troves of unconventional weapons, the ingredients for making them and the network of scientists able to produce them. This is a long-term challenge. But over the next days and weeks, American commanders face an urgent task: to make sure that none of this deadly arsenal leaks out to terrorist groups or neighbouring states like Syria or Iran.
This will not be easy. Components of every kind of unconventional weapon Iraq may have can be smuggled out in compact forms amid throngs of refugees crossing the thousands of miles of borders. Germ agents and seed stocks can be freeze-dried, sealed and carried in a shirt pocket. Nerve gases can be converted into talc-like powders.
Iraqi Baath leadership may have to be offered a measure of leniency.
Gulf News, Dubai
Shock, surprise and deception are the key words used to
describe the war against Iraq. What was termed by the perpetrators as a short and swift war seems hollow for it looks as if the gory face of this war may hover for a long time. The element of surprise, in fact, faces the coalition forces for whom a short conflict would have resulted in toning down the international community's condemnation of the attack without giving enough time for diplomacy.
Hence the war may continue for quite some time, and the ramifications will be borne by all those directly involved - but mostly by the innocent Iraqi civilian population.
It was the resistance of the Iraqi forces that has 'shocked and awed' the Americans and not vice-versa.
The psychological wild card played by Bush in the form of 14 million leaflets in Arabic and English designed to persuade the Iraqi army to lay down its arms seems to have failed to produce the desired effect that he was looking for in order to make this war swift and short.
The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
This war is rightly seen as an attack against humanity, and therefore against the values of just about all religions that preach peace. You do not have to be a Muslim to feel horrified at the sight of Iraqis living under the terror of constant US bombings, or of Iraqis fleeing the war in fear.
Inevitably, many Muslims in Indonesia feel a strong bond with their brothers and sisters in Iraq, but then, so do people of other faiths. There is a sizable minority of Iraqi Christians who are equally suffering during the current war.
This war, therefore, should be seen as not solely an attack on Muslims and therefore on Islam, but as an attack against all religions, and the values that they represent.