His only point was that he was the best of a bad lot. He finds no one he can respect, but how many US politicians can we respect. But the carnage there seems unending.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:44:04PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Aug 31, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> > A colleague of mine in the accounting department is a Christian
> > Iraqi with lots of
> > family there. He has no love for Iraqi fundamentalism but
> > considers Sadr to be
> > honest and the only politician possibly capable of keeping the
> > country from
> > fragmenting into separate pieces.
>
> But now we read that his own movement is fragmenting. Yoshie hopes he
> could overcome his anti-Baathist "sectarianism" - but how can the
> leader of a sect overcome sectarianism, esp when he's under fire for
> not being radical enough? How can someone whose base is poor Shiites
> unify such a diverse country?
>
> Doug
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