> In just three years since March 2003, more than 100,000 Iraqis,
> Americans, and others have died due to the US invasion, the invasion
> that just about destroyed modernity (from losses of women's rights to
> emergence of sectarian battles) in Iraq. Amnesty International says
> that about 12,000 -- counting all who are killed, from Maoists to
> villagers suspected of aiding Maoists to the King's police, military,
> and civilian supporters -- have perished in Nepal in its decade-long
> civil war. Iraq's and Nepal's populations are about the same: Iraq,
> 26,074,906; and Nepal, 27,676,547. It seems to me that we are the
> ones who are living in a country whose government unleashed messianic
> brutality --
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Well, I was referring to Maoism in practice in Red Guard China and Pol Pot's Kampuchea. What will or won't happen in Nepal via the Maoists is anyone's guess, yours included, so switching the subject to Iraq kinda begs the original question -- indeed, avoids it altogether.
As for the US unleashing messianic brutality in Iraq, yes, we have, and have for quite some time in other parts of the world. Indeed, I'm on record here as saying that capitalism and "free markets" have killed far more people than has state socialism, Maoism included, but again, what that has to do with current events in Nepal, as far as what a revolution might bring, is beyond me.
Dennis