>I prefer to simply support the Iraqi communists, on the basis that I think
>their approach seems most likely IMO to deliver genuine revolutionary change
>to Iraq . But if we _do_ look at Iraq "in particular" --- and US-led
>imperialism in Iraq "in particular" --- an unpalatable thought might then
>surface: "is imperialism is all bad?", when it brings new/enhanced
>connections with the outside world and investment, and the alternatives
>might well be particularism, clerical obscurantism and/or Arab
>ethnocentrism..._if_ you want to go down that line of thought.
Hey, don't stop yourself - could you develop this a bit more?
Doug