Surprise! Iraqis Can Live Without a Government in Baghdad!

Even journalists are now beginning to recognise faintly that people can get on happily without a central government -- that there can be life without the State. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12725209%255E2703,00.html Nicholas Rothwell describes in The Australian 2 April 2005 how neighbourhood, local & regional, social & ‘political’ arrangements in Iraq have continued operating serenely -- while occupation troops, various local thugs (‘insurgents’), & ‘national’ politicians have squabbled & fought across the surface of people’s lives. Rothwell naturally dates these arrangements to the days of the Ba’athist regime, but this is how people have always lived - while all their various rulers have strutted & postured on the political stage.