Re: Why the French Resistance Is Not the Model for Iraq
On Nov 23, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Both those, like Tariq Ali, who have hailed resistance to the occupation of Iraq and those, like Doug, who have had nothing but negative comments on it
What I said just yesterday:
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.
Meanwhile, today:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of car bombs killed 160 people in a
Shi’ite stronghold in Baghdad on Thursday in the bloodiest single
attack since the U.S. invasion of 2003.As political leaders scrambled in public to hold Iraqis back from
all-out sectarian civil war, they imposed an indefinite curfew on
the capital. Police said the six coordinated blasts in the Sadr
City slum wounded 257 people, many maimed for life.The blasts came at the same time as gunmen surrounded and fired on
the Shi’ite-run Health Ministry in one of the boldest daylight
assaults by militants in Baghdad. Mortars later crashed down on a
nearby Sunni enclave in an apparent reprisal attack. It’d be nice if there were less that, more resistance.
Doug