Re: “you and I, are indirectly responsible”
On Nov 19, 2006, at 1:58 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
I do not think it is good news that the variety of paramilitary
actors operating in Iraq are so emboldened. They do not seem to be
a democratic movement to establish a free Iraq to me. They seem to
be various shades of anti-democratic terrorism, dedicated to short- circuiting the difficult business of winning over the mass of
people to their side with violent actions.I blame the Coalition for their ascendance, but I still think they
are a net loss for humanity, not a gain.
After Christian Parenti met a bunch of them, he said many were
nihilists with no political program. Others said they’d rather
destroy their country than let the U.S. have it; I wonder how many
Iraqis would share that POV. When I first quoted him saying these
things, Yoshie & Co. disagreed strongly, but it sure seems like
Christian was onto something.
Doug