[lbo-talk] hungry dog

[Seth Ackerman]

An astounding quote from an article on the MERIP website. Anyone know who
this professor might be?........

http://www.merip.org/mero/interventions/levine_interv.html

While NYU's Noah Feldman helps to write the Iraqi constitution, other
American scholars are engaged in even more troubling relationships with the
occupation regime. Perhaps the most egregious involves a professor from a
major West Coast graduate school who has become one of Bremer's top
intelligence advisers. When privately asked by a leading American activist
in Baghdad why the US can't get basic services up and running when Iraqis
were able to do so within weeks after the 1991 war (in which Baghdad was
much more heavily bombed), he replied: "When you make a dog hungry he'll
follow you." The professor/intelligence adviser frankly acknowledged that
his phrase alluded to the goal of breaking the occupied population, in the
manner of Israel's tactics in Palestine.