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Thursday, October 13, 2005

Knowing a few things about an insurgency

"I don't think it's possible to have any progress in democracy with foreign troops on your territory. I think this is the French experience."

Francois Descoueyte, French Ambassador in Australia, on Iraq.

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Blogger Pete said...

The last 2 posts are largely irrelevant because troops are no longer occupying the European or Japanese soil mentioned.

In the case of Europe there was a deep history of democracy.

Not so in Iraq, the place the frog Ambassador is referring to.

Democracy can only occur after a dominating military force (applying martial law) has left.

The yanks don't care about this opinion, of course, only about American public opinion.

Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:18:00 am  
Blogger Pete said...

savvas

These's some truth to what you say.

That it takes "infidel" Americans to boot out Saddam hurts Iraqi national pride.

However, its the minority Sunnis, who benefitted so greatly under Saddam, who are fighting the coalition the hardest. The Sunnis are also doing most of the bombing to destabilise any chance of Shia dominated "democracy".

Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:57:00 pm  
Blogger Pete said...

Not very much. Because the US (and Russia etc) wants to keep Turkey stable. Turkey's genocidale "solutions" against the Kurds and during WW1 the Armenians therefore go unpunished.

A bitter law of history is that a dictatorship's treatment of minorities is usually tolerated until its politically expedient to make a noise.

Hence Russia's murder of millions of its Muslim minorities in WW2 (forced evacuation to Siberia - then death) has gone largely unsung.

Saturday, October 15, 2005 1:03:00 am  

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