America winning battle, losing the war
by HAROON SIDDIQUI, Toronto Star

Moqtada al-Sadr is a better strategist than George W. Bush. That's one of the lessons of the second American siege of Najaf in four months. His ragtag army has held the world's greatest power at bay for three weeks by misusing a sacred site.

This was a confrontation al-Sadr could not have lost and America could not possibly have won, and should never have got dragged into.

That it did, shows, yet again, its imperial arrogance as well as ignorance of the history and culture of a nation it's trying to subdue mostly with brute force.

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