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July 10, 2004
On Martial Law, Allaouie and Iraq
Another aged comment: To Collounsbury, and everyone that wants to speak up -- What do you feel about the new laws being passed in Iraq regarding the ability to declare martial law? Do you think it's mostly the new government doing some saber rattling and increasing its power, or a necessary step versus the insurgency? I'm truly undecided on it.
It's realism.
The pissing and moaning in the American press in re authoritarianism is silly. There is no way democracy is going to function during a civil war, and frankly little chance that any democracy will function in Iraq in any real sense, so where is the fucking problem? Losing the illusion of virginity? Without martial law, this simply drags on. The only real question is can Allaouie establish an independent sense of legitimacy, because we have already seen, the American authorities as presently constituted are utterly incapable of grappling with the problem successfully. They pissed away all their opportunities and managed to make themselves hated.
I have a note, by the way, to finish off on this moronic policy of using air power to strike urgan targets in an insurgency. Possibly the stupidest, most self-defeating "force protection" measure yet concieved. Amazing. Amazingly stupid that is. Air strikes in urban areas against an insurgency. Why that is just the recipse for winning over the population and seperating it from the insurgents.
The collosal amount of idiocy that is American Iraqi policy sometimes staggers.
Or better, "penny wise, pound foolish" as if one intends to spend soldiers lives, do not
Posted by The Lounsbury at July 10, 2004 01:16 AM
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