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Edited on Tue Jun-08-04 02:12 PM by rmpalmer
This one sounds interesting. At least it's not another 30 minutes of Reagan deification. From their email:
TONIGHT'S FOCUS: A foreign army occupying Iraq, and wondering why it wasn't greeted as a liberator. A foreign government trying to figure out who should rule the new Iraq, and how to keep the various factions content. Sound familiar? But this was more than 80 years ago.
The crowds continue to file past the casket of Ronald Reagan, and we'll have an update on that and the plans for tomorrow. We'll be covering the services, and take a look at his legacy in the coming days. But tonight we want to focus on a different subject. It's been another busy, and bloody, day in Iraq. At the same time, the UN Security Council is expected to vote, probably unanimously, on a U.S-sponsored resolution that would let the new Iraqi government consult on military operations, but not have veto power over them. Again, just what does sovereignty mean?
But we in television news are often accused of having no sense of history. We focus on what is happening in the moment. Live! Late-breaking! This just in! After a while, those terms lose their meanings. But do we cover history? Only in the sense that we watch it go by, and rarely are able, or willing, to put it into context. But of course, there is that old warning, those who ignore history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. I know I've butchered the actual quote, but the thought is the same. So we're going to try to take a long-overdue crack at that tonight. Robert Krulwich will look at what happened back around 1920 when a British army had invaded Iraq. You'll hear letters and accounts from that time, and they will sound very current. And if we think this may be ancient history, the Iraqis don't. That's why at demonstrations today you'll hear chants referring back to the "revolution" of that time. Robert will show you old film of those days, but to many of the Iraqi people, that time isn't represented by flickering black and white images. Those issues, and the legacies of those times, are impacting the events of today.
Also tonight, John Donvan will take a look at the Iraqi flag. At least what is now being called the "interim" Iraqi flag. A flag that will probably never fly over much of anything. It's all about symbols, and colors, and history. Just a piece of cloth? Hardly, and in many ways a good indication of how people can share events but live in very different worlds.
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