[lbo-talk] Baghdad: 35 Murders A Day

[mike larkin]

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Charles Brown wrote:
> 
> >This seems to support the position of those of us
> who say it is the
> >U.S.'s presence , not its absence or departure,
> that makes "chaos" ( uh oh,
> >better call James Bond ) in Iraq.
> 
> The U.S. destroyed a state that permeated every
> aspect of Iraqi life. 
> It was hard for institutions to exist outside the
> Ba'athist 
> structure. As Boris Kagarlitsky once said of the
> USSR, people related 
> politically to the state and not to each other.
> Having destroyed that 
> - what's left? Christian said that one of the few
> seriously left 
> secular parties wants the US out, but the UN in. Why
> isn't that good 
> enough for you? You know better?
> 
> Doug

"U.S. Out, U.N. In."  Nice bumper sticker

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