Re: Gays Flee Iraq as Shia Death Squads Find a New Target

On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

Did the Observer defend the Baathist government of Saddam Hussein, before the invasion of Iraq, on the grounds that secular nationalist dictatorship would be better for gay men in Iraq than any of the three likely alternatives to it that could result from the invasion: a puppet government beholden to Washington or a radical anti-Washington Islamist government or, worst of all, decades of chaos and anarchy?

When did you reinvent yourself as a specialist in Hobson’s choices?

Doug

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