[lbo-talk] Shooting Civilians Becomes Routine In Iraq

[Shane Taylor]

Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> [It should surprise no one to read that US forces,
> hot, tired, dirty, scared and, perhaps, disdainful in
> a somewhat racist way of the (now) destitute and
> angry Iraqis they're dealing with, would adopt the
> 'shoot-first' posture.  

All true, but it recalls something Bertrand Russell wrote in _Power_: "A
government without psychological authority must be a tyranny."

-- Shane


> US troops 'shoot civilians'
> By Bob Graham, Evening Standard, in Baghdad
> 19 June 2003

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