<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: people in glass cages shouldn't...</title></head><body> <div>Doug wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:<br> <br> ><i>The concept of "monsters" is a mental block that prevents us from<br> </i>><i>analyzing the history of Iraq in particular and the nature of</i></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">><i>political power in a modern state in general.<br> </i><br> From interviews broadcast on October 17, 2002 and archived at</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000"><</font><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html</u></font ><font color="#000000">>:</font><br> <font color="#000000"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">"This is a monster who has been created and backed by the West. On the left, he's been hated for ages. He's a pitiless and ruthless dictator."<br>   - Tariq Ali, starting at 12:56</font><br> <font color="#000000"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">"Saddam Hussein and bin Laden are both monsters, but they're very different kinds of monsters. Saddam Hussein is secular; Osama bin Laden is a religious fanatic.... No links have been found, but they're both monsters."</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">  - Noam Chomsky, starting at 3:07</font></blockquote> <div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div>Aside from that Saddam Hussein is "secular," "pitiless," and "ruthless," "created and backed by the West," you don't learn anything about the Ba'ath Party in particular or Iraq in general from the above sound bites by Ali and Chomsky.  That's the nature of sound bites, you see.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Take a look at _<font color="#000000">The Clash of Fundamentalisms_ among other things, if you haven't already.</font></div> <div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font color="#000000">Yoshie</font></div> </body> </html>