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13531 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:14 PM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > You only have to look at the policies: putting Ahmed Chalabi in charge > of the Higher National Committee for the Eradication of the Ba'ath > Party > as his personal patrimonial plaything was one thing; integrating > the Badr > into the security services another; pushing through a sectarian > constitution > was the decisive political moment in the development of the civil > war dynamic. > > The US ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 14:10:18 PST 2006

13532 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 11/21/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >> > Neither you nor Lenin nor anyone here is part of "the >> resistance," nor >> > can we be. We are out of the picture. Let Iran, Syria, and the >> Mahdi >> > Army solve the problem, for it is _their_ problem. >> >> Nothing human is a ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 13:32:34 PST 2006

13533 [lbo-talk] Israeli Settlement Building on Private Palestinian Property -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > http://www.peacenow.org.il/data/SIP_STORAGE/files/9/2569.pdf > > Peace Now s Settlement Watch team has compiled precise information > regarding the legal status of the land on which Israeli settlements > have > been constructed in the West Bank over the last four decades. I was surprised to see this on the front page of the NYT this morning.

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13534 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:14 PM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > The US has pursued sectarianism in order to create a state with weak > capacity and legitimacy, (but with a strong counterinsurgency stance), I don't see how that's in the US interest right now (and I don't get the "divide and rule" claim - there's plenty of division, but not much ruling). Washington badly needs an effective puppet regime, not one in which ministers are shot and their underlings kidnapped out o ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 12:50:52 PST 2006

13535 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Neither you nor Lenin nor anyone here is part of "the resistance," nor > can we be. We are out of the picture. Let Iran, Syria, and the Mahdi > Army solve the problem, for it is _their_ problem. Nothing human is alien to me, the man said.

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 12:28:45 PST 2006

13536 [lbo-talk] Re: Altman is Dead -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:47 PM, BklynMagus wrote: > SECRET HONOR Loved that movie, but I've got a Nixon fetish. I'm amazed how obscure it is - I usually draw blanks whenever I mention it. Doug

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13537 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Leninology is correct that it's a "problem" for the resistance, but > that > doesn't bear on what is at issue here. As Travis points out, > focusing on > such incidents (or patterns of such incidence) among citizens of the > 'mother country' adds up to support for more repression. I didn't read > the article the headline of which I reported this morning But you felt free to comment on it? > -- but no > doubt Ob ...

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13538 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:59 PM, tfast wrote: > Yes, and black on black violence in SA was quite high from the mid > to early > 1990s. It involved both intercene violence and ideologically > motivated > violence. Is there something corresponding to the ANC/SACP alliance in Iraq? Have I missed something? > I just really am having trouble understanding your point Doug. The > US was > and is the prime mover in Iraq. They fked shit up and now fked up > shit is > happen ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 11:19:13 PST 2006

13539 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > No doubt with much American encouragement and inducement, its > called "divide and rule," a classic tool of imperial occupiers How do you know this is the strategy? On the public record, the US authorities have been trying to prevent sectarianism, not encourage it. They may be lying, but what's your source? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 11:16:54 PST 2006

13540 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 1:36 PM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > Carrol Cox wrote: > >> Doug Henwood wrote: >>> >>> Several people have pointed out that there is no single Iraqi >>> resistance. True enough, but isn't that part of the problem? >> >> Whose problem? How is it a problem relevant to anyone on lbo? Do you >> have a solution? Should anyone here have a solution? This is inane. > > It is a problem for the resistance, since ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 11:16:47 PST 2006

13541 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Several people have pointed out that there is no single Iraqi >> resistance. True enough, but isn't that part of the problem? > > Whose problem? How is it a problem relevant to anyone on lbo? Do you > have a solution? Should anyone here have a solution? This is inane. On your advice, I'm going to shrink my interests and attentions to the world immediately around me. Fuck Pennsylvania. It's ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 11:13:49 PST 2006

13542 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Bernard Fall made about resistance > movements: they ALWAYS kill far more of their fellow citizens than > they > do of the enemy, and to make an analytic point of such occurrences is > either real historical ignorance or deliberate obfustication. Two people have asked you, and I'll ask you again: the French people killed by the resistance - were they caught in the crossfire, collaborators, or members of competing branches of the ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 09:33:00 PST 2006

13543 [lbo-talk] Qaeda at Work (was the Iraqi resistance at work) -- rank: 1000

Several people have pointed out that there is no single Iraqi resistance. True enough, but isn't that part of the problem? Most of the militias seem more interested in fighting each other than the Americans, and some of the militias are even fighting among themselves. How can you fight an anti-colonial war with absolutely no unifying themes or ideologies? You can't say Islamism is, because Islamists are fighting Islamists. Life after Communism is a woefully impoverished thing. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 21 09:19:56 PST 2006

13544 [lbo-talk] Altman is Dead -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 11:52 AM, BklynMagus wrote: > Well, he went out with a great movie. Sad, though 81 is not young. Nashville is one of my favorite movies of all time. I love this (from the NYT obit): > "No other filmmaker has gotten a better shake than I have," Altman > said while accepting the award. "I'm very fortunate in my career. > I've never had to direct a film I didn't choose or develop. My love > for filmmaking has given me an entree to the world and to ...

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13545 [lbo-talk] Fine young patriots ... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I think it's possible that Gary Trudeau reads lbo-talk :-) Hey I washed his dishes when he was in grad school and I was working in the grad school dining hall! We've got long-standing connections. Doug

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