>All of them are sidestepping an important issue, which is that
>the armed actions in Iraq appear to be drawing very little popular support,
>and it's not unreasonable to wonder why that is so. Contrary to Steve's
>snide cracks, there are plenty of us here who have supported and continue to
>support resistance movements among "nonwhite" peoples that include an armed
>component, even considering that individual violent operations occasionally
>produce ghastly horrors: the Vietnamese, the Algerians, or South Africans in
>days past; the Palestinians, (and for some of us) the Colombians and
>Filipinos today. And since Yoshie seems so interested in it, I will say
>forthrightly that I have nothing in principle against the right of Iraqis to
>mount an armed resistance to the occupation of their country, even
>considering that there will inevitably be an occasional operation gone
>wrong. But what good does it do us to not recognize that there is no armed
>"people's war" going on in Iraq, apart from scattered armed bands who appear
>to have little popular support especially nationwide and indeed may be at
>eachother's throats?
...etc.
Thank you; very well put.
Doug