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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/opinion/17_09_03_b.asp

Pan-Arabism, dead in Baghdadユs streets

Having Muslim troops stationed in a Muslim country made sense, didnユt it? A Saudi officer or a Jordanian soldier would have been much easier to trust than one with the stars and stripes on his uniform, right?
Wrong.
Evidence on the ground in Iraq suggests that the population does not actually regard the absence of Arab involvement as a bad thing at all. The truth is that most Iraqis would prefer to have a US-dominated force in their country, over an Arab one. The grim reality, one particularly hard to hear for those Arabs who felt they were supporting their Iraqi brethren when demonstrating against war, is that most Iraqis don't want to have anything to do with them.
On the walls of Mosul University, one of Iraq's oldest, warning signs are clearly displayed: No Jordanians, No Palestinians. Iraqis are clearly still upset that other Arabs were able to study in Iraq, effectively on former President Saddam Hussein's payroll. Iraqis have had enough of seeing their own lives compromised for the benefit of Arabs from neighbouring countries. Saddam played the Palestinian card for all it was worth. Iraqis widely believe that the support, both vocal and financial, he gave to families of Palestinian suicide bombers was the reason behind the wrath of the Zionistst in Israel and America.
Whether that is true or not is beside the point - Iraqis saw other Arabs benefit from the Baath regime, while they were left to suffer. In contrast, the US spilled the blood of its soldiers to liberate them from Saddam's tyranny. No matter how bad things are in Iraq, friends, colleagues and relatives assure me that with the pressure of living under the old regime gone, life is 100 percent better.
"Foreigners had more rights in Iraq than Iraqis did under Saddam," is not an uncommon complaint heard in Baghdad.
Pan-Arab nationalists will find that their dreams have died in the dusty streets of Baghdad and in the narrow lanes of Fallujah. Iraqis just aren't interested. They have enough problems of their own and want to get back on an even keel, to enjoy their country as they were always supposed to.


レバノン紙にしばらく前に載ってた記事。執筆者はイラクの英字新聞記者。
この記事によると、どうもイラク人は、
アラブ諸国の軍隊が国連のもとでイラクに来ることを嫌がっているらしく、
アメリカ単独の方がマシだと思ってるらしい。

その理由は、サダム時代の反動のため。
サダムは「アラブの英雄」という夢に憧れて、
パレスチナの自爆テロを推奨したり、アラブ諸国からの学生を援助していた。
そのためイラク人の間では
「サダムのせいで俺たちイラク人が悲惨な目にあってるとき、
他のアラブ諸国の外国人は、サダムのおかげでイイ目を見ていた」と
アラブ諸国への怒りを感じているという。

「アラブの大義」という夢想が、完全に終わったと言えるのかもしれない。