[lbo-talk] Descended into chaos...

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>>Patrick Cockburn :
>>Iraq has descended into chaos way beyond West's worst-case scenario
>
>It was a little surprising to see two stories in today's NYT that concede 
>things are getting really bad:
>
><http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/international/middleeast/24insurgents.html?hp>
>
><http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/weekinreview/24burns.html?hp>
>
>If the official organs of reassurance are saying this, it must be getting 
>really bad.

I was stunned to see those articles and would have posted them to the list 
but was already too overpostal re London developments.

Yes, the wheels really seem to be coming off the imperial Humvee in Iraq.  
What with repeated terrorism in London -- precipitating public *and* 
official panic -- plus the Sharm el Sheik bombs, world events appear 
unusually volatile now.  History seems to have entered one of those 
speeded-up periods.

BTW, I think John Pilger had an excellent column on the linkage between the 
London bombings and Iraq:  
<http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-07/21pilger.cfm>

Carl