[lit-ideas] Re: Iraq: civil war, or something else ?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:31:42 -0500
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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