[lbo-talk] Two Takes

[Bradford DeLong]

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>From: "Brad DeLong" <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
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>>  Self-emancipation is really hard. To believe that the Iraqis could
>>  have done it by themselves in less than decades is, IMHO, an act of
>>  self-deception.
>
>But they did come close once, the uprising in 1991. Is it irrelevant to
>point out that US policy towards the Iraqi uprising was to help Saddam crush
>it?
>

Yep. It's still unclear to me whether Bush I was sure the Iraqi 
people would do it by themselves anyway, or wished Saddam left in 
power to be a problem for the Irania theocrats, or whether Bush I 
listened to the Saudis and the Saudis believe that all Arab regimes 
must be preserved...

Brad DeLong