> Marvin Gandall wrote:
>
>> I'd call the car bombings "barbaric", but I wouldn't call them
>> "nihilistic".
>
> Christian Parenti's used the word "nihilistic" too - the insurgents
> he'd talked to had no positive vision for Iraq at all. When he asked
> them what their ideology was, they said "Islam" and "Ba'athism." When
> he asked what that meant, they couldn't elaborate. He said they'd
> rather destroy Iraq than let the US have it.
>
> Doug
Have you ever considered that Christian Parenti is just another western social commentator with his head up his ass?