[lbo-talk] Saddam Died Beautiful (The eXile gets all misty-eyed over Saddam)

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun Jan 14 21:19:20 PST 2007


Michael J. Smith wrote:


> This seems a somewhat tendentious reading. What he said was that Iraq
>
>was a "a bag of snakes," which, as metaphors go, doesn't seem
>too far off base. What exactly he meant by it you'd have to ask him,
>but when I read the piece, I took it to be a comment on the country's
>bitter and inveterate sectarian and ethnic antagonisms.
>
Well, take a bunch of tribes that don't have much to do with eachother...except various animosities... and turn them into a state. Then set up the situation so that you have a front man running it and give power to a minority so that they are beholden to their masters for their power and unable to govern except with that support. Then blow everything up and stir the pot...and golly gee you get a lot of sectarian violence.

This is colonialism 101.

So, no, I get the point about Saddam dying a manly death, but the boy nerd should just jerk off privately.

Joanna



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