[lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 11/19/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

I do know that we, including you and I, are indirectly responsible for
the deaths of the poor Shi'ite workers in the story, the
responsibility that you refuse to acknowledge.
-- 
Yoshie
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