>The question is not whether we should be happy or unhappy. We
>aren't spectators. The question is what we, as organizers and
>activists, should be doing now, now that we have an opportunity --
>the cultural tide is turning against Bush & Co. -- but also _a
>danger_ -- the likelihood that they are going to send _more_ troops
>for _longer_ terms for a campaign of _counter-insurgency and
>"pacification"_ in order to defend the occupation.
I just interviewed Anatol Lieven on the radio this afternoon (and apologies, but I'm way behind on updating the radio archives - doing final corrections/revisions on my book is taking for-goddam-ever). I asked him what he made of the open insubordination we've been hearing from GIs the last few days. He thought it was filtering down from the officer corps, which never was happy about the Iraq expedition, and in unhappier than ever now. They're also very pissed at Rummy for being so imperious, and dismissing their (accurate and now vindicated) worries about the mission.
Doug