RE: [Marxism] David Corn on Zarqawi. A gene-carrying member ofthe"civilized world" speaks out for assassination and occupation

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:58:39 -0400, Mark Lause wrote:

> My observation--which Fred has kindly quoted--was:
> "Over the long run, the US is undermining its own arguments
> by removing characters like Zarqawi from the scene.
> The more of these out of the picture, the more clearly the war
> in Iraq becomes a war of an occupied people against
> the occupier, untinted by religiously inspired
> executions and barbarities."
>
> Fred objected, and, after two exchanges on this,
> I seem to be confused as to why and remain utterly,
> entirely clueless as to the intensity of his
> objections.

  Well, I can understand the above quote from yours to mean, that
killing people like Zarkawi actually causes changes in the political
composition of the resistance against the US occupation in Iraq,
eliminating or weakening those currents who rely on "religiously
inspired executions and barbarities", allowing other political currents
to take center stage.

   That is what Fred Feldman is strongly objecting to, insisting that no
action of the USA can have any positive influence on the resistance to
its rule in Iraq.

   When you mean instead that eliminating figures like Saddam Hussein,
Zarqawi, and such ilk, just eliminate the star villain, to whose actions
the US occupation can attribute all problems they have, as the Goldstein
of their 2-minute-hate, and that they run into more problems explaining
away their problems, or building up new star villains, then say so.

   I believe, and I think Fred Feldman too, that the politics of Zarqawi
or Bin Laden are not caused by the evil influence of an insane
individual, but have their social fundations, which I see mainly in the
parasitical nature of large part of the Arab ruling classes, at least in
Saudi Arabia and similar monarchies based on oil wealth, where many
people get an apanage from the oil revenues for doing nothing, while the
large majority of workers consists of immigrants, especially from the
Indian subcontinent, the Philippines, and other Asian countries.

   So, the political current prominent by its "religiously inspired
executions and barbarities" will not vanish just because its main public
figure has been killed, but will continue so long as its social basis
exists and other forces from within the Iraqi nation have not managed to
build a leadership based on a different program.

   That is, as far as I understand, the reason for Fred's ire and your
controversy.


Yours,
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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