coalition close to crisis

[LouPaulsen]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Burford" <cburford at gn.apc.org>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> >But just to stick with Basra for the moment. IF waiting outside is not an
> >option what is? Newsnight did not press the point, but the question will
> >come up as fast as tomorrow. The option, shame upon humiliation, will be
> >to have to negotiate with the existing administration of Basra!!
> >
> >And that will be the choice: sieges of the major cities, requiring the
> >hegemons, after everything, to negotiate with the Saddam regime, or risk
> >an enormous level of pain in terms of body bags, and superbly televised
> >real time horrors, in an international climate in which the other big
> >powers of the world are refusing to cooperate in any exit strategy in
> >terms of peace  keeping.

I pretty much agree with this and in fact I independently wrote very much
the same thing on marxmail.  See the following link:
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg27265.html

lp