>Carrol quotes Rudyard Kipling. And he believes that there is no
>meaningful difference between a "U.N." and a U.S. occupation of Iraq
>-- an opinion I share, for whatever that's worth, even if Moqtada
>al-Sadr doesn't.
Since my last post, I've thought more about Al-Sadr's new demand for a UN peacekeeping force minus the current occupiers, a reversal of his earlier opposition to UN peacekeepers. Then, I've come to a conclusion that Al-Sadr must have issued the demand (or rather the challenge), knowing full well that it will be rejected by Washington. If so, it is probably a very clever move, which may prove effective, given his power and prominence that command the world's attention (unlike the marginalized Worker Communist Party which has issued a nearly identical demand to a deafening silence of the world). I just posted a new entry "Muqtada Al-Sadr and the United Nations" at <http://montages.blogspot.com/>. -- Yoshie
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