Christian Pareti has an interesting piece in the current nation, surveying the resistance, which suggests that there are forming organized democratic forces in what the ex-Bloc people call "civil society"; laos there's a piece about democratic resistance to govt plans made up in Triangle Park, NC. It's not wholly a gloomy picture. Mind, I don't expect much -- an Eastern European-type bourgeois democratic outcome would be a triumph, if the Iraqis could put it together themselves. The result -- if Iraq were as democratic as Poland, say -- would be the most democratic state in the Middle East. that includes "the only democracy in the Middle East," for obvious reasons, again assuming the Sunni, Shia, and Kurds can come to a compromise solution. jks
--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> >>Sure there are, but do they constitute "forces,"
> i.e. at least
> >>numbering in millions, well organized and prepared
> to use (as well
> >>as capable of effectively using) force if
> necessary to defend
> >>themselves and democracy?
> >
> >What's your point? We should just sit back and let
> the heavily armed
> >duke it out? I can't figure out the take-away, as
> they say in the
> >NGO world.
> >
> >Doug
>
> I'm asking a question because if Iraqi democrats
> that Justin speaks
> of can't constitute the "forces" in the
> aforementioned sense quickly,
> they are goners, whatever we say or do here.
> --
> Yoshie
>
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