On the ground the violence continued.
The consequence, he said, would be the poorest nations becoming "the breeding ground for violence".
It normalises the control over women and prepares the ground for violence against women and the murder of women".
Its failure so far to provide either security or legitimacy has turned Iraq into a cause célèbre and a training ground for violence.
And the understandable focus on security issues has disguised the fact that the economy is in utter chaos, creating a fertile breeding ground for violence.
In 2011, Pearce gained overnight popularity after footage emerged of her standing her ground as violence escalated around her in Hackney, east London.
As a result, thousands of American troops and Iraqis are dead, and Iraq has become a fragmented sectarian nation and a breeding ground for violence and anti-Americanism.
By the time a police officer was hacked to death by a mob at the Broadwater Farm Estate in north London in 1985, it's "award winning" design was already known to be a breeding ground for violence and crime.
Muslim leaders from New York who came to speak at the memorial service, which was held at the Islamic Institute of New York in Woodside, said the postwar occupation of Iraq had made it a breeding ground for violence and extremism.
