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| Doug, (caricaturing Yoshie?):
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| 'It's also about staking out your market niche - you can't be the
| baddest leftist on the block if you can't denounce all the others as
| stooges, dupes, and sellouts.'
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| Well, possibly; that's a characterisation that resonates. But maybe you should take care that you do not sound a little shrill, yourself.
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| (And, for sure, questioning the racial background of posting is a provocation too far.)
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| But the rhetorical energy given over to denouncing the violence committed against the occupation - and, or - against 'struggling civil society' in Iraq, is out of proportion to the problem.
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| I haven't endorsed any struggle against the occupation - I just don't know enough about what anyone is fighting for.
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| But I do know that the failure of the occupation is not caused by the 'Iraqi resistance'/'terrorists'. It has failed on its own.
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| The only real threat to the security, and to the sovereign will of the Iraqi people (however expressed) is the occupation itself.
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| The desire to label opponents as 'Ba'athists', 'Al Qaeda', 'fanatics' and so on is so strong because it is the only way to justify the military presence - so short on indigenous endorsement.
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| *** There is, it should be said, an immature desire to see imperialism - personified in the US Serviceman, or even in the Iraqi policeman - cut down by an avenging angel from the east, that stirs the hearts of western adolescents.
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| That fantasy, coalesces with its obverse, the fear of the 'axis of evil', to big up the supposed Iraqi resistance.
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