Tribal authority had grown in the wake of the government's fall . . . tribal code stipulated a brutal frontier justice, which had come to fill a lawless void. This code, rigorous and unforgiving, was paramount.
"Anthony Shadid" was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Baghdad and Beirut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010.
More Anthony Shadid on Wikipedia.Each side, American and Iraqi, saw their actions as responses to the other's threats. Each side felt the other was forcing it to act. Each side thought the other only understood force.
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War.
There was an almost divine quality to American power; it was merciless in its practice, flawless in its execution, ... Saddam had ruled for thirty-five years; the Americans had toppled him in less than three weeks, and relatively few of their soldiers had died in the task. How could these same Americans be so feeble in the aftermath?
Time and again, I am struck by how seldom I hear the word, hurriya , 'freedom,' in conversations about politics in the Arab World, ... Much more common among Arabs is the word, adil , 'justice.'
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