Re: dev’ts in world economy and foreign ownership
On May 29, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
I have no way of knowing lurkers’ opinions, but for a longest time a majority of people on this mailing list kept saying that Washington couldn’t and shouldn’t just withdraw US troops, we must arrange for substitute peace-keepers first (as if anyone wanted to go in!), we must reconstruct Iraq first (as if we ever would!), we must support Sistani, et al.’s call for elections first (God only knows why anyone thought that was a good idea), and so on and so forth. It was the same way at the steering committee of United for Peace and Justice. Only a few unreconstructed Marxists thought that was all BS.
Someone wrote me offlist with the observation that your politics
increasingly resemble those of the late 1960s SDS - “suffocatingly
moralistic,” obsessed with identifying sinners. Maybe this is all
part of your new religious turn. But it makes for annoying and
tedious reading.
I said from the first that opponents of the war in the US should take their cue from what Iraqis want
Gauged by opinion polls taken under the occupation, no less, as if such polls had anything to do with truth.
Not exactly; I heard similar things from people who’d been to Iraq
and talked to actual Iraqis, unlike you & Carrol, who seem to know
everything from your vantage point in the American midwest. Those
same unreliable polls tell a different story now from what they told
in 2003, so are they equally unreliable today?