Re: [A-List] US Forces Assault Shiite Mosque, Kill 66 Iraqis

["Chris Burford" <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is consistent with the theory in cynical bourgeois circles that
according to past history the US will only be able to get out after a
spectacular show of military force.

It sounds crazy from any long term point of view capitalist or
democratic, does it not?

>From a marxist point of view it relates to the importance of bodies of
armed men in the theory of the state, but the Mehdi army will only be
defused by its enemies by negotiations among the Iraqi people, will it
not, rather than by an attack which will recruit more people to its
cause than it will kill or intimidate?

Chris Burford