Re: Thomas Frank op-ed piece

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

indeed i read about this, and it only adds to my
doubt. i am not very
knowledgeable about iraq but is it not possible that
the thugs who will
rush in to fill the void left by a suddenly departed
US army, would be
worse? i remember reading pieces about east timor,
rwanda, and
elsewhere, of the horrors that ensued when any
provisional authority
pulled out (in those cases these authorities were a
bit more
legitimate,
such as the UN).

isnt it important not to forget that their thugs are
as bad as ours?
only, we can try to control our thugs but they cannot
control theirs or
ours.

        --ravi
---
I personally have no real opinion on this subject,
since I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on
what's happening in Iraq, but over in this part of the
world the powers-that-be are very worried that Iraq is
going to wind up as a fundamentalist state sitting on
huge amounts of oil reserves that would try to further
destabilize Central Asia, which would be really bad.
(Then again, a fundamentalist state dependent on Iran
might even be a good thing for the Kremlin, since
relations between Moscow and Tehran are pretty close
and Russia views Iran as a moderating influence in the
Muslim world. One of the first things Putin did after
he became president was to invite Khattami to the
opening of a new mosque in Tatarstan.)



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