[lbo-talk] A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq?

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed May 25 09:32:46 PDT 2005


--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> 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.
>
>

This was sorta the problem in Chechnya in 1994-1996, you know.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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