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roachboy · 08-14-2004, 11:51 AM

najaf appears to be a fiasco in the making for the occupation in its various guises:

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...67EB2E13B5.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/in...15IRAQ.html?hp

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3565200.stm

to level the place would be the stupidest possible action--it would assure a national insurrection that would unite sunni and shia forces. there already is no coherent plan--creating a situation in which an incoherent colonial occupation has to deal with a massive insurrection that could have been avoided if only they were less cloddish...i dunno, but it would seem suicidal to do anything remotely like flattening najaf.

it is interesting to see---in the various articles above---that it appears to have been allawi who torpedoed the talks, and who seems interested in pushing toward this absurd conclusion....i do not understand what he is thinking. any ideas?

typically, to get any idea of what is going on, you have to read through multiple sources and parse things carefully--but so far as i can tell, the americans are being put (or are putting themselves) into a no-win situation here.

08-14-2004, 11:51 AM	#19 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	najaf appears to be a fiasco in the making for the occupation in its various guises: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...67EB2E13B5.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/in...15IRAQ.html?hp http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3565200.stm to level the place would be the stupidest possible action--it would assure a national insurrection that would unite sunni and shia forces. there already is no coherent plan--creating a situation in which an incoherent colonial occupation has to deal with a massive insurrection that could have been avoided if only they were less cloddish...i dunno, but it would seem suicidal to do anything remotely like flattening najaf. it is interesting to see---in the various articles above---that it appears to have been allawi who torpedoed the talks, and who seems interested in pushing toward this absurd conclusion....i do not understand what he is thinking. any ideas? typically, to get any idea of what is going on, you have to read through multiple sources and parse things carefully--but so far as i can tell, the americans are being put (or are putting themselves) into a no-win situation here. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite