[lbo-talk] Tariq Ali's piece at Counterpunch

[andie nachgeborenen]

Actually, it _has_ happened, that the occupation is
far worse than the Saddam regime, so far as I can tell
-- on the predictable Hobbesean grouds that any govt
better than none (Sorry, Chuck0 -- may in anoyher
world!) As under Stalin, for ordinary people who were
apolitical, the Baathist regime was probablt pretty
good -- leaving aside the sanctions. God help you if
you were perceived as a dissidsent, but most people
proabbly did more than OK -- until the sanctions. I
oiffer no apologies for Saddam or Stalin. I am glas
they are gone. But you can do worse. There is a Yddish
curse: May you get what you wish for. jks

--- dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> Quoting Brian Siano <siano at mail.med.upenn.edu>:
> 
> > I point out that the deposing and 
> > capture of Saddam Hussein, one of the worst
> dictators of the modern era, 
> > is a Good Thing. 
> 
> My point is, the metric of evil in 2003 has to be
> the structural violence of 
> multinational capitalism itself. The Baathist regime
> was vile, no question, but 
> Saddam's crimes pale next to the structural violence
> unleashed by the World 
> Bank/IMF -- a body count of millions, versus
> hundreds of millions. I await the 
> citizens' arrest and popular trial of senior IMF
> staffers with glee.
> 
> > I find this kind of reasoning absolutely
> fascinating-- if only for the 
> > fact that everyday life under Saddam Hussein is
> left unmentioned. Have 
> > you ever bothered to read the accounts of his
> rule? 
> 
> Sure -- including the account of Rummy's famous
> handshake. 
> 
> > (You say that the U.S. occupation _will_ cause
> "inconceivably more 
> > horror and suffering in the region than the
> sanctions ever did." Not 
> > that it's merely possible, but that it _will_
> happen. 
> 
> Based on what's happened just six months after the
> invasion, catastrophe is an 
> entirely reasonable extrapolation.
> 
> -- DRR
> 
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