[lbo-talk] The US's inevitable dictator

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Marvin Gandall" <marvgandall at rogers.com>
>
>(It was bound to come to this - something which always eludes liberal
>imperialists like George Ignatieff and Thomas Friedman, seduced by the
>promise that US intervention abroad, however messy, will yield democratic
>results. The Pentagon’s widely discredited choice for strongman, Ahmed
>Chalabi, was forced to give way, so to the CIA’s nominee, Iyad Allawi, was
>the only possible alternative. Now the repression-with-an-Iraqi-face will
>begin in earnest.

Yes, but there's still evidence of the immense benefit the Iraqis have 
gained from the US war of liberation.  Whereas the repressive Saddam sported 
that sinister Stalinesque mustache, the repressive Allawi is clean-shaven.  
All the difference in the world, really.

Carl

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