[lbo-talk] The Occupation

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Tue Dec 21 11:05:38 PST 2004


Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com, Tue Dec 21 08:25:24 PST 2004
>--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>> > It can't be that Iraqis can't believe Iraqi
>> resistance fighters would
>> kill other Iraqis -- they know that resistance
> > fighters have and will
>> kill collaborators who work for the occupier as
>> politicians,
>> soldiers, policemen, translators, and so forth.
>
>Given that those are the best-paying and probably in some places
>almost the only jobs in Iraq, I would guess that the collaborator
>population is pretty large.

The empire is not what it used to be, financially speaking. The Pentagon is cheap enough not to budget for armored vehicles, body armors, and other force protection gear for US soldiers in its main budget, counting on the supplemental: <http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/12/smart-guerrillas-vs-cheap-imperialists.html>. I very much doubt that Iraqi soldiers and policemen employed by Washington are paid well enough to make it worth sticking to it: <http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/11/30/news/police.html>. Take the money and run.

BTW, indigenous collaborators in any war against the foreign occupation -- from America to Vietnam to Palestine to Iraq -- have always been treated more harshly than foreign enemies. More of indigenous collaborators have died than foreign occupiers. Take, for instance, the Vietnam War, and compare US and ARVN casualties: <http://www.vietnamwall.org/casualty.html>. Nearly five times as many ARVN soldiers died than US soldiers did. -- Yoshie

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