[lit-ideas] Re: Iraq: civil war, or something else ?
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 19:29:41 -0800 (PST)
You could read the article if you wish to comment on
it. Of course, the US didn't just want to destroy
Iraq, but also to keep control over its oil and place
military bases there. If it just went out and left
Iraqis to an all-out civil war, that wouldn't have
been accomplished. Also, the article rises doubts as
to whether the civil war would have happened without
the continued US presence.
O.K.
--- Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wonder though, if that was the original idea, why
> struggle with an
> insurgency? Why go through the gyrations of "peace
> with honor" (Johnson's
> mess in Vietnam)? Why not just say, well, they
> voted with their feet, let
> them break up and do what they want. The pieces of
> this premise aren't
> fitting in place. I admit I didn't read the
> article, but if the intent is
> to sink the ship, then sink it. Why shoot one's
> self in the foot and then
> sink it?
>
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 4/1/2006 8:00:08 AM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Iraq: civil war, or something
> else ?
> >
> > The inability to talk about Iraq in an appropriate
> > context has been one of the greatest setbacks to
> the
> > anti-war movement here in the United States of
> > America, and to describe Iraq solely in terms of
> being
> > in civil war contributes to this problem. Iraq is
> > under occupation and the current rivalry between
> what
> > are indeed Iraqi factions has to be interpreted
> within
> > this context. The possibility of civil war in Iraq
> is
> > not the result of mismanagement on the part of the
> > Bush administration or some inherent hostility in
> > Iraqi society; civil war, rather, is and has
> always
> > been the favored alternative should the United
> States
> > fail to dominate Iraq politically. The pirates of
> both
> > the Right and Left side of the establishment
> agreed
> > before hand that if they could not steer the ship
> they
> > would sink it.
> >
> > http://www.counterpunch.org/laith03312006.html
> >
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