>I realize no one on lbo-talk would agree with Kipling's argument as
>expressed a century ago. But whatever the intentions of those who hope
>that the u.s. government might do "something good" in Iraq, in practice
>that position is a repetition in new dress of Kipling's world view.
I could swear the call was for the U.S. out and the UN in, in accordance with the position of the Iraqi secular left, or what there is of it. Who are these people who'd except the USG to do something good in Iraq?
Doug