--- 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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