On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >Christian Parenti understands one crucial point -- Iraqis' self
> >respect -- much better than Doug makes him sound like
>
> There are at least two points here that you're conflating. Iraqis want
> the Americans out (and a lot more than they did a year ago, when there
> was some willingness to cut the U.S. some slack), but the resistance
> includes some really bad people (theocrats and semi-fascist
> Ba'athists). The situation sounds extremely messy and complicated, and
> not at all appropriate to simple tales about self-respect.