by Adam Hochschild

AlterNet

06/29/04

If the new Iraq-to-be is not a state, what is it? A half century ago
one could talk about colonies, protectorates, and spheres of
influence, but in our supposedly post-colonial world, the vocabulary
is poorer. We lack a word for a country where most real power is in
the hands of someone else, whether that be shadowy local militias,
other nations' armies, or both. Pseudostate, perhaps. From
Afghanistan to the Palestinian Authority, Bosnia to Congo, pseudostates have now spread around the globe. Some of them will even be exchanging ambassadors with Iraq."...

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/19079/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp