Hoisted by their own, brazen pétards By William Bowles

January 12, 2004Leave a comment

12 January 2004

Western media continues to belittle Iraqi opposition to the occupation

The latest reports to come out of Iraq reveal an ever growing level of resistance to US plans to create a puppet government for the country, not that you’d know it from Western news coverage aside that is from the (predictable) coverage of the Shi’ia statement by Ali Sistani, the leader of the Shi’ia Muslim community opposed to the July date for an interim ‘government’.

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“Unlike the Latin American left, the pathetic European version has lost all sense of what it means to do politics. It does not try to propose concrete solutions to problems, and is only able to take moral stances, in particular denouncing dictators and human rights violations in grandiloquent tones. The social democratic left follows the right with at best a few years delay and has no ideas of its own. The “radical” left often manages both to denounce Western governments in every possible way and to demand that those same governments intervene militarily around the globe to defend democracy. Their lack of political reflection makes them highly vulnerable to disinformation campaigns and to becoming passive cheerleaders of US-NATO wars. That left has no coherent program and would not know what to do even if a god put them into power.” – Jean Bricmont

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Day: January 12, 2004

Hoisted by their own, brazen pétards By William Bowles

Western media continues to belittle Iraqi opposition to the occupation

Western media continues to belittle Iraqi opposition to the occupation

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