> 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
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Who knows? I'm sure the Islamists and Baathists have a mix of excitable
wingnuts and sober types with more worldly goals - just like the left,
though in our case I hope and (on good days) believe that the ratio is far
more favourable. :)
M