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

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

> Doug Henwood
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Leigh Meyers

I'd say Christian has his head on straight and most definitely not up his 
ass. 

John Thornton