[lbo-talk] the Iraqi resistance at work

[boddi satva]

To actually answer your question, Doug, the rationale is almost
certainly personal resentment and grief combined with the attitude
that the Shiite apostasy must be destroyed even to the extent of
murdering all Shiites, combined with somebody else's political
ambition. Apparently there is an invisible person in the sky who tells
Muslims whom it's all right to kill.

The Iraqi resistance is clearly peopled by the most appalling people
who want nothing but evil for Iraq and Iraqis. At best - at best -
their motives are revenge and the idea that violence is the way to
solve their problems. Unfortunately, our presence gives these savages
an excuse and a sort of social legitimacy.

The rationale for this kind of barbarism can be summed up in one word: "Them".

The fact that America has now allied itself with Jews AND Shiites (at
least as far as Sunni propoganda is concerned) is a total nightmare.
To have sailed into a muslim country where the Shiite/Sunni conflict
has such huge violent potential was completely insane. So far as I
know, Sunnis and Shia have been in continuous violent conflict
literally ever since the splitting off of the Shiites. Somehow we
thought a centuries-old violent conflict wasn't going to crop up when
we destabilized the whole country.

Really defies reason.

boddi

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.
>
> Doug
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