Iraq post-war nation-building 'has totally failed'

Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka said yesterday that post-war nation-building efforts in Iraq have “failed totally", but expressed hope that the country’s different religious groups can work together to build an independent nation.

Belka, speaking at a panel discussion on nation-building at an international forum in Sweden, said the US and its allies made a mistake by basing its post-war plan for Iraq on the same model used for Germany after World War II.