[lbo-talk] Re: Note on Lieven

[Ulhas Joglekar]

Michael Pollak wrote:
> But in non-established states, I argue, things are different.  Here,
> theoretically (everything at this point is theoretical, since we're making
> guess about the future of something that is historically new), random
> violence can keep them from ever being established, just by itself.  This
> means there doesn't need to be large forces and safe harbours for
> resistance to be prolonged and effective.  And for better or for worse --
> and I mean that ambivalence quite strongly -- it means there doesn't need
> to be a unified resistance movement to pull it off.  Several small cadres,
> or outside funding, fed by young men willing to take part once or twice
> out of anger or honor, could theoretically be enough to keep it going
> forever.

There is a question of having a coherent ideology which holds such
resistance movement together and sustains its activity. Vietnamese, for
example, had it. What will be the ideology to sustain Iraqi resistance? Is
there such an ideology in Iraq? Islamic fundamentalism?

Ulhas