The UN that let the US Government carry out the genocidal sanction on Iraqis, the sanction that killed far more Iraqis than the current war has?
At 4:47 PM -0700 7/22/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>someone relatively disinterested
Someone relatively disinterested, right now, has neither economic nor military power to be of assistance to Iraqis.
At 4:47 PM -0700 7/22/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>the US is not leaving Iraq.
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>This is not a situation like Vietnam where when the US pulled out
>there was another govt to step in.
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>The recognition is not a license to do more or stay longer. It does
>impose a requirement that something be done by someone. Ultimately
>that will have to be Iraqis. Immediately, it appears, it cannot be
>the Iraqis.
There was no social force comparable to the Vietnamese Communist Party -- founded on February, 3, 1930 -- ready to form a new government when Vietnam was first colonized by the French in 1884 (Cf. "Indochina," <http://www.bartleby.com/65/in/Indochin.html>). It took the Vietnamese about five decades of struggle against the French Empire to get themselves organized into a political formation that could grow into the leadership of a truly effective independence movement. -- Yoshie
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