Re: the Iraqi resistance at work
On Nov 19, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 11/19/06, Doug Henwood dhenwood@panix.com wrote:
Can someone explain the strategic rationale behind this?
HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 22 people south of Baghdad on Sunday by offering poor Shi’ite workers day laboring jobs and then detonating explosives packed inside his minibus as the crowd gathered around it.
Nihilism? Sectarianism? Making Iraq ungovernable? I don’t get it.
You should have supported Saddam Hussein’s government. Terrorism against that government was not unknown, and it committed its own state terrorism on a large scale, but it provided security to the Iraqis, who will not enjoy it again for many, many years to come.
What does this mean? Saddam’s government was a horror, but the US
invasion has made things far far worse. I’m trying to understand why
someone would trap a bunch of desperate workers and blow them up.
Obviously you don’t know the answer, but you couldn’t just say that,
could you?
Doug