[lbo-talk] Why Saddam's Capture Will Indeed End the Insurgency
Curtiss Leung
curtiss_leung at ibi.com
Fri Jan 23 12:07:04 PST 2004
What surprises me about the article is how blithely its author
disgards *nationalist* sentiment in Iraq. He treats it as if
it were only some ornament upon Ba'ath ideology. If anything,
doesn't the insurgency there show passionate Iraqi nationalism
cuts across Ba'ath/anti-Ba'ath Sunni/Shia categories?
Curtiss
Michael wrote:
> Wasn't it basically a Catch-22 for the invaders? You either leave in
place
> an indigenous army that might start shooting the wrong way when the
"no
> elections for you" cat gets out of the bag, or you unemploy them.
It's so
> depressing to see Bush getting approval for international security.
Like
> Hitler getting high marks for ethnic relations...
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