[lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work)

[Michael Pugliese]

On 11/21/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Several people have pointed out that there is no single Iraqi
> resistance. True enough, but isn't that part of the problem? Most of
> the militias seem more interested in fighting each other than the
> Americans, and some of the militias are even fighting among
> themselves. How can you fight an anti-colonial war with absolutely no
> unifying themes or ideologies? You can't say Islamism is, because
> Islamists are fighting Islamists. Life after Communism is a woefully
> impoverished thing.
>
> Doug

   Communist led NLF's  had far more "unity in action" than these
reactionary Islamists (just read a fascinating interview w/a Syrian
Marxist critic of Edward Said, Sadik Al-Azm in the Arab Studies
Quarterly, Summer97, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p113, 14p, who makes this point,
among many others) but, then I recalled the internal feuding inside
the FMLN that led to the killing on Roque Dalton and Mélida Anaya
Monte, 2nd in command of the FMLN by Cayetano Carpio, 1st in command.

-- 
Michael Pugliese