[lbo-talk] The US's inevitable dictator

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 11 07:13:19 PDT 2004



>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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