[lbo-talk] Re: A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 11/28/06, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > You can't establish a state by flower power
> > anywhere.  Building a
> > state, more often than not, is a brutal,
> > authoritarian process.
>
> Isn't that, say, Chuck0's point? Bakunin called the
> state "like a vast slaughterhouse or an enormous
> cemetery." Sometimes you don't have to choose between
> two sides. You can choose neither.

If no party manages to build a state, Iraq will be like Afghanistan
after the Soviet withdrawal (1989) and the fall of the Mohammed
Najibullah government (1992) and before the Taliban's conquest of
Kabul (1996) and then much of Afghanistan.  Iraqis who wish not to
choose any side and wish to escape violence can only emigrate, which
more than one million Iraqis have already done and more will continue
to do.
-- 
Yoshie
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