Breaking windows: In the neighbourhood and in Iraq

The US-led invasion of Iraq, a ‘supreme war crime’, not only shattered the Iraqi state, killed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and devastated the incomparable cultural heritage of the birthplace of civilization, it also created the fertile seedbed for the efflorescence of crime, corruption and violent extremisms. Iraqis today live amidst shards of glass, resulting from the deliberate policy of ‘breaking windows’ to end the Iraqi state.