Re: Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work)
On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:14 PM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote:
You only have to look at the policies: putting Ahmed Chalabi in charge of the Higher National Committee for the Eradication of the Ba’ath
Party as his personal patrimonial plaything was one thing; integrating
the Badr into the security services another; pushing through a sectarian
constitution was the decisive political moment in the development of the civil
war dynamic.The US has pursued sectarianism in order to create a state with weak capacity and legitimacy, (but with a strong counterinsurgency stance), so that it would be accountable principally to the occupiers who
pervade every embassy and who dish out funds to managers of the state institutions that they created, and which are not susceptible to representative control.
I forwarded this to Christian Parenti - who, for those who don’t know
his work, spent about three or four months reporting in Iraq. and
wrote an excellent book on the topic (The Freedom) - who comments:
I think that the US went it with very little in the way of strategy and that the Shia pushed alot of what happened, like the elections and the constitution… but the Kurds (US tools) did put in the most sectarian parts about three province veto, etc. de-bathification was from Bremer, as far as I know, and was the result of ideological zeal by a dude who knew fuck all about iraq and was now acknowledged by all, left right and center, to have been part of the US imperial suicide.
Yes it seems that divide and rule would have made sense but this is meltdown and defeat….