[lbo-talk] Gays Flee Iraq as Shia Death Squads Find a New Target

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Aug 6 17:28:40 PDT 2006


On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> Did the Observer defend the Baathist government of Saddam Hussein,
> before the invasion of Iraq, on the grounds that secular nationalist
> dictatorship would be better for gay men in Iraq than any of the three
> likely alternatives to it that could result from the invasion: a
> puppet government beholden to Washington or a radical anti-Washington
> Islamist government or, worst of all, decades of chaos and anarchy?

When did you reinvent yourself as a specialist in Hobson's choices?

Doug



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