[lbo-talk] Re: Free Iraq! Come On!

[Dennis Perrin]

> Anti-colonialism 101 is to support self-government, be it chaotic or
> orderly, and oppose foreign occupation, be it chaotic or orderly.
>
> Foreign occupation of necessity breeds racist assumptions, especially
> in the minds of soldiers of the army of occupation who must fight off
> indigenous guerrilla fighters and therefore come to fear and hate the
> population into whom they melt back and from whom they cannot be
> readily distinguished.  That's another reason why we must Bring the
> Troops Home Now and End the Occupation.
> --
> Yoshie

Well, the Yosh Pit has me on autotrash, so she won't read this, but the rest
of you (save Carrol) will.

I seem to recall our academic Leninist supporting, in retrospect (and in
real time?), the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, which, as
Michael P. will support with endless stats, killed over a million and
littered the country with tens of thousands of land mines, etc. Now, we can
go into whether or not that was a "benign" invasion, as well as pointing out
Washington's complicity via bin Laden and gang, but I highly doubt that the
Yosh Pit would've, were she a grad student at a Soviet U., typed out the
above, urging the Red Army home. Or would she?

DP