On Nov 21, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Leninology is correct that it's a "problem" for the resistance, but
> that
> doesn't bear on what is at issue here. As Travis points out,
> focusing on
> such incidents (or patterns of such incidence) among citizens of the
> 'mother country' adds up to support for more repression. I didn't read
> the article the headline of which I reported this morning
But you felt free to comment on it?
> -- but no
> doubt Obama in his speech urging that 'we' stop coddling Baghdad would
> have been making exactly the same kind of point Doug seemed to be
> making.
It's not at all, you presumptuous old crank. In a better world, there'd be a unified Iraqi resistance that didn't kill members of rival militias or sects that could successfully drive the US out and lead to the creation of a democratic socialist independent Iraq. I know that wish and a Metrocard will get me on the subway, but I doubt Obama would agree.
> _At best_ it is the detached argument of the observer who gives
> not a shit about the lives of those he observes from a distance; at
> worst it is propaganda supporting the u.s. invasion.
You're the dude who said Iraq needed a good civil war. Only someone who gave not a shit about the lives of those he observes from a distance could say something like that as coolly as you did.
Doug