--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> At 11:50 PM +0200 7/23/03, Bryan Atinsky wrote:
> >The problem in Iraq is not that there aren't
> organizations capable
> >of administering society, it is that there are
> several of them. You
> >have a well armed population (not in comparison to
> the US, but
> >enough for a sustained civil war), a Shia majority
> that wants one
> >form of rule, a Sunni population that is used to
> leaders from its
> >ranks being in power, and a Kurdish population in
> an oil rich region
> >who would like their own territory, which neither
> the Sunni nor the
> >Shia would be interested in letting go of (or for
> that matter the
> >Turks). And this is just the major power
> groupings, saying nothing
> >of how each of them break down into competing
> tribes and factions,
> >secular and religious interests. And this also
> doesn't include the
> >regional power interests who would like their say
> in how Iraq's will
> >look religiously, ethnically, politically and
> militarily.
>
> The same problem of political, religious, ethnic,
> and other divisions
> besets all colonized societies. One can say roughly
> the same about
> Palestinians under the Israeli occupation, too, and
> yet I don't hear
> Israeli leftists saying that Israel must continue
> its occupation of
> the West Bank and Gaza unless and until the UN
> peace-keepers come in,
> set up a UN mandate, disarm Palestinians to prevent
> a civil war among
> contending political factions, and supervise the
> formation of an
> interim Palestinian government. "End the
> occupation" is the main
> slogan of the Israeli left, of which refusers are an
> important part
> -- this despite the fact that, due to decades of
> settlement
> construction, ending the Israeli occupation of the
> West Bank and Gaza
> will be a far more traumatic process for Israelis
> than ending the
> newly-begun US occupation of Iraq will be for
> Americans. What's
> wrong with US leftists?
> --
> Yoshie
>
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