Re: Najaf

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol Cox wrote:

> Marvin Gandall wrote:
> >  A spokesman for Al Sadr meanwhile told Agence France Presse
> >  early today that UN troops should be brought into Iraq to replace US forces,
> >  an unrealizable demand indicating the Mehdi Army is anticipating a fight.
>
> Debate on demands of the anti-war movement has been frequently disrupted
> by the inability of too many leftists to acknowledge that UN involvement
> is an _unrealizable_ demand. The _only_ rational demand is immediate US
> withdrawal without conditions.

And immediate unconditional U.S. withdrawal is a realizable demand?
It'd be news to me if it was. So why are some unrealizable demands
preferable to other unrealizable demands?

Doug