[PEN-L:36129] Re: Re: Basra uprising wishful thinking?

[soula avramidis <soulaavramidis2002@xxxxxxxxx>]

I do not know quite where the odds have got to, but I share with Soula a
feeling that there is a high probability the US will lose this war. I never
bet money, but I would happily put 10 pounds on it.

Come to think of it, I wonder if Ladbrokes are quoting odds, or would that
be unpatriotic?


Chris Burford
London

judging by my own experience, the rift between dream and reality can be immense.  in my youth I passed the question "what did you want to be when you grow up to a  homeless person, and that led to a fight from which I escaped unscathed simply because then I could run"

later there was the impending brush with dialectics which in one respect says, things have their own logic and therefore it might be fool hardy to guess. guessing is the worst form of a travail d'esprit, or the closest thing to living hell.  

but last night, four events occurred and none have to do with military balance- the US is far more superior: the Shiite mullahs in Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq said "fight for martyrdom," and the biggest demonstration in Beirut yet was carried out by Shiite factions brandishing the Iraqi flag. this irrespective of tech superiority tips things in Iraq?s favour.

but another item is also developing, which is if the war lasts, and the Iraqi leadership can still have a voice to the outside, in its hour of parting it might take many Arab regimes with it. Jordan first. the buffer state will be no more and a billion Muslim lie behind those borders.

pragmatism is positivism or thought without any scope or vision. the US bush and his class have gravely miscalculated, they do not see that things are related to other things outside their immediate surroundings, and that although the universal in reality might not exist, but the general does.

had the US managed a helicopter drop of 75 billion dollars on the Iraqi people, I am sure that this would raise percapita income five folds in iraq and it would mean that the US may take the oil for free given the Iraqi?s traditional generosity. i recommend fish baked under the hot sands on the tigris with a local variety of alcohol made of dates, and may say iraqi cuisine is my favorite, mind i have been around.

instead one sees poor demoralized drafted soldiers who otherwise could have been unemployed at home acting as gun fodder for imperialism and a mass of people in Iraq victims of their man made fate on all counts. but on the up side of the dialectic of life, war is the best time for love.

 

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