On Nov 19, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> 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.
What does this mean? Saddam's government was a horror, but the US invasion has made things far far worse. I'm trying to understand why someone would trap a bunch of desperate workers and blow them up. Obviously you don't know the answer, but you couldn't just say that, could you?
Doug