[lbo-talk] Iraqis looove America

[Brian O. Sheppard]

Scene witnessed on TV: "Freed" Iraqis looting stores, hauling off TVs and
computer equipment in wheelbarrows, beating suspected fedayeen
members. Stoic US soldiers nod and look on. One Iraqi man with a
wheelbarrow full of goods passed the camera and shouted, "I love America!"

Can anyone doubt that if, somehow, Saddam's forces had won, the same
Iraqis would be waving Iraqi flags, cheering, presenting flowers for
the Ba'ath Loyalist troops, etc.? What sentiment is "real," and what is
simply the result of a people so demoralized and oppressed that they have
simply become slavishly worshipful of power?

Brian

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