From the first days of the Iraqi conflict, the Pentagon's stubborn refusal to face up to the realities of the battlefield there has compounded the political and military problems of occupation and needlessly endangered American soldiers.
The journals published at these universities, frequently edited by members of the teaching staff, are open forums that discuss the problems of occupation, aspects of the conflict and the quest for a solution, both at the micro and the macro levels.
The problems of occupation are not just faced by faced by national-level players, however.
They know it won't solve the underlying problems of occupation, which always produces resistance.
Indeed, the analogy to German occupation may be, while distasteful, most instructive about the problems of occupation.
This is the report of the Military Governor for Germany in July 1945: "The food situation throughout Western Germany is perhaps the most serious problem of the occupation.
Andrew F. Lang is a doctoral candidate at Rice University, where he is completing his dissertation on the problem of military occupation in Civil War America.
As for your leaders, and those who adopt their strategy, who insist on ignoring the real problem of the occupation of all of Palestine and who exaggerate in lying and denying our right to defend ourselves and to resist, they have no self-respect and belittle the faith and minds of people.
Otherwise it just becomes another income redistribution scheme, one that doesn't solve the long-term problem of dis-occupation, and which only breeds resentment and despair and a new class of citizens perpetually dependent on government handouts.
Bremer is aware of the deeper problems of the occupation.
