[lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 11/19/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Can someone explain the strategic rationale behind this?
>
> > HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 22 people south of
> > Baghdad on Sunday by offering poor Shi'ite workers day laboring
> > jobs and then detonating explosives packed inside his minibus as
> > the crowd gathered around it.
>
> Nihilism? Sectarianism? Making Iraq ungovernable? I don't get it.

You should have supported Saddam Hussein's government.  Terrorism
against that government was not unknown, and it committed its own
state terrorism on a large scale, but it provided security to the
Iraqis, who will not enjoy it again for many, many years to come.
-- 
Yoshie
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