Re: Sadrism, in qualified defence of
On Aug 31, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
A colleague of mine in the accounting department is a Christian
Iraqi with lots of family there. He has no love for Iraqi fundamentalism but
considers Sadr to be honest and the only politician possibly capable of keeping the
country from fragmenting into separate pieces.
But now we read that his own movement is fragmenting. Yoshie hopes he
could overcome his anti-Baathist “sectarianism” - but how can the
leader of a sect overcome sectarianism, esp when he’s under fire for
not being radical enough? How can someone whose base is poor Shiites
unify such a diverse country?
Doug