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sorry about this, but i am so tired of hearing and reading the line that "we should support our troops at this critical juncture" as a way to shut down questions--serious questions--about what the americans are doing.
it was used in efforts to shut down criticisms of the bushwar in its earliest phases--now it has turned out the critics were right.
it was used as a device to accompany the shifting "explanations" floated by this administration for their actions.
it appears again here as a way of trying to shut down questions about what the americans think they are doing by going into najaf.
this last thing seems like a debacle in the making--so much so that the americans are looking for a way out as we sit here. i imagine that the americans are negociating now after watching the "iraqi security forces" in action yesterday in najaf--i think they must have decided that sending them into the shia holy sites would trigger a bloodbath (so that symbolic move was made absurd at two levels, both in itself and practically)
i think there are multiple resistance movements to american colonial occupation in iraq, some directed at the occupation proper, some directed at the nature/composition of the present puppet regime.
i think that the "installation of democracy" was a fig leaf proffered by the administration to sell its ridiculous war, the motives for which seem to be about making a statement against international institutions rather than about having anything approaching a coherent plan on the ground.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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