Re: Shadid's Night Draws Near

[Ralph Johansen <michele@xxxxxxxx>]

This certainly sounds right. Thanks. Aside from these misimpressions
it's no doubt difficult for most in the US to understand, given how
insular and gulled and arrogant we are as a people, how it feels to be
isolated and embargoed, bombed, deprived of basic services, for twelve
years, and then subsequently have your valuable resources under your own
native land forfeited to white Westerners, and be brutally occupied and
demeaned for chrissake. And then be told that under quislings democracy
will occur.

Anything less than out now! is a war crime prolonged.

Ralph


Marvin Gandall wrote:

> The myth that the armed resistance does not originate in, or enjoy broad
> support within, the Sunni community and even outside of it. The myth that
> Sistani speaks for most Shias while Sadr is marginalized and a sectarian
> religious fanatic. My impression is that there is a wing of the peace
> movement, its right wing, which accepts that the Iraqi resistance is
> primarily composed of unsavoury Baathist diehards and foreign
> jihadists, and
> they favour US withdrawal solely on the basis that the occupation has
> created an uncontrollable mess which is not worth any further
> investment of
> American lives and resources. Certainly, the developing sentiment against
> the war within the political and media establishment has this
> consideration
> uppermost in mind, and as the antiwar movement extends further into the
> mainstream, this view may well predominate among people who are less
> attentive to Iraqi politics than the activist core of the movement.

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