[lbo-talk] Re: Baghdad: 35 Murders A Day

Thiago Oppermann thiago_oppermann at bigpond.com
Sun Aug 31 21:31:39 PDT 2003


On 1/9/2003 11:50 AM, "lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org" <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> wrote:


>> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>
>>> It's not as if Iraqis didn't know how to get electricity and water running:
>>
>> That's when Iraq had a strong and functional state. Ugly, but it did
>> keep the electricity flowing. The U.S. destroyed that, nothing
>> works, and people are at each other's throats. The conditions are
>> completely different.
>>
>> Doug
>
> By that logic, the United States government, or any other government
> with a powerful military for that matter, can destroy any functional
> state, create a mess, become a belligerent occupier, and continue the
> occupation on the pretext that now there is no functional state
> because it destroyed it.

What were you expecting? Reparations? Who to?

The logic you describe seems sound. People have been following it for what? Five thousand years?

Thiago



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