Hussein’s Hold on Iraq

Revenge is the most powerful psyche that consumes and propels the individual and collective unconscious of the entire Middle East. No amount of weapons in Iraq will ever make the leaders of the Middle East sleep comfortably short of killing Saddam and then finding ways to make peace with the people of Iraq lest another Saddam rises again.

All Arab and Israeli leaders know how to control the masses through the powerful and pervasive emotion of revenge. Unless the Western mind comprehends what revenge means to the average person in the Middle East and how easy it is to evoke by the leaders, all the editorializing and logic exhibited by the experts and highly paid consultants will not help (the West) understand the recent and not so recent history in the Middle East.

RAAD OMMAR, La Crescenta