[lbo-talk] Finding the elephant in the room

uvj at vsnl.com uvj at vsnl.com
Mon Jul 18 11:01:52 PDT 2005


Charles Brown wrote:


>We are saying to Bush, Blair and the U.S. and British people: If you do not
>stop attacking Iraq and other countries, then there are people out there,
>obviously, who will retalitate against you AND MORE IMPORTANTLY AGAINST ME
>SINCE I'M IN THE SAME COUNTRY AS BUSH. Doesn't matter that the retaliators
>are bad guys. British and American governments are "worse guys" in the
>larger picture; so whose bad and whose good is irrelevant.
>
>Since the U.S./British wars are not justified either ( you all are "worse
>guys"), the conclusion is : the U.S. and Britain must stop carrying out
>these wars>>

Yes, the US led forces should withdraw from Iraq. But_Iraqis_ may want some transitional arrangements to preserve peace and stability. We know the consequences of the Soviet withdrawal and American abandonment of Afghanistan. Nobody wants another Afghanistan in West Asia.

Ulhas



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