[lbo-talk] Why Saddam's Capture Will Indeed End the Insurgency

[Curtiss Leung]

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...