Ever heard of the law of unintended consequences? Gee, who would have thought that
radical fundamentalist Islam would find a home in the petal-strewing, candy-tossing american suburb known as Iraq?
At universities too, religious hard-liners are taking hold -- at Baghdad's Mustansiriya, self-appointed morality police now guard the campus gate. They recently sent a grad student away because she was wearing pants.
In Bush's ideal Iraqi democracy, women can't wear pants to school. Suppose they'll earn an equal wage for equal work, or have the right not to be sold like chattels, or have an abortion after they are raped by a warlord?
Whatever Iraq is going to be, it's not going to be as advertised....and it's not going to be pretty.