On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote:
> No doubt with much American encouragement and inducement, its
> called "divide and rule," a classic tool of imperial occupiers
How do you know this is the strategy? On the public record, the US authorities have been trying to prevent sectarianism, not encourage it. They may be lying, but what's your source?
Doug
^^^^^^ CB: Probably we will have to use inference rather than find a "smoking gun" of rulers sitting around saying they are trying to rule.
Can we first agree that the U.S. is trying to rule there ?
What's the best way to rule, by uniting or dividing ?
(We'll solve the problem of defining the "ruling class" later)