[lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>John Lacny wrote:
>
>>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

So, what do you think of the armed struggles of Palestinians, 
Colombians, and Filipinos today?  What will be John Kerry's policy 
toward them?  And Kerry's policy toward Iraqis?
-- 
Yoshie

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