>Doug, what on earth has Carrol done to deserve this relentless baiting?
Also:
At 10:26 PM -0500 8/27/03, Carrol Cox wrote:
>No possible policy that leaves a foreign army in Iraq can lead to other
>than disaster. But although "No U.N. involvement, U.S. Out" 'ought' to
>be one of the core slogans of the anti-war movement, it will be a while
>(and many 10s or 100s of thousands of deaths) before a movement can
>began to coalesce around that. I think it important for at least a few
>of us to keep saying that however.
At 8:07 AM -0500 8/28/03, Carrol Cox wrote:
>No. Nothing, nothing whatever, will bring as much death and destruction
>as will a continuing western presence in Iraq, whether that western
>presence is called U.N. or U.S.
>
>I first had this argument back in the '70s over Nicaragua. A poli-sci
>professor who had been in Nicaragua and called himself a
>"marxist-leninist" argued that unless "we" helped Nicaragua there was no
>hope for the people there.
>
>Same thing applies here.
>
>Actually, I've given up arguing this. But I urge people to file this
>post and Yoshie's away and recheck them 5 to 10 years from now.
>
>U.S. out of Iraq!
>
>U.N. out of Iraq!