Re: Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work)
On Nov 21, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
Leninology is correct that it’s a “problem” for the resistance, but
that doesn’t bear on what is at issue here. As Travis points out,
focusing on such incidents (or patterns of such incidence) among citizens of the ‘mother country’ adds up to support for more repression. I didn’t read the article the headline of which I reported this morning
But you felt free to comment on it?
– but no doubt Obama in his speech urging that ‘we’ stop coddling Baghdad would have been making exactly the same kind of point Doug seemed to be making.
It’s not at all, you presumptuous old crank. In a better world,
there’d be a unified Iraqi resistance that didn’t kill members of
rival militias or sects that could successfully drive the US out and
lead to the creation of a democratic socialist independent Iraq. I
know that wish and a Metrocard will get me on the subway, but I doubt
Obama would agree.
At best it is the detached argument of the observer who gives not a shit about the lives of those he observes from a distance; at worst it is propaganda supporting the u.s. invasion.
You’re the dude who said Iraq needed a good civil war. Only someone
who gave not a shit about the lives of those he observes from a
distance could say something like that as coolly as you did.
Doug