lbo-talk-digest V1 #7286

[joanna bujes]

At 12:36 PM 01/22/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>One can oppose Saddam, indeed denounce him and hope he soon falls, and
>denounce Israel's occupation and contribution to terror through surrogates.
>Is your mind big enough for that, Joanna? Or are you gonna fall into the old
>predictable trap of saying, "Well so-and-so does it too! So there!" Israel
>has nuclear weapons, so let Saddam have some. Hell, al-Qaeda too. Only fair,
>right?

Except you never talk about Israel. And, if we are attacking Saddam for the 
reasons you cite...those reasons apply ten fold to Israel, except in 
Israel's case we are funding/supporting those same practices.


>As bad as Israeli policy is and has been in the territories and in Lebanon,
>you cannot compare its internal society to that of Saddam's Iraq.

Explain "internal society"; explain how the cohesiveness of the chosen few 
makes up for the theft, the murder, and the torture of the unchosen.

Joanna