On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Tim May wrote:
And so there are many reasons for a "stay behind" strategy and almost no reasons against it.
How about there's no way in hell they'd bother. Al Qaida is already more sophisticated than anything Saddam has figured out.
Yep, grounds for optimism. The poverty of the West Bank, except a factor of ten larger.
Very much an optimist, it's not gonna happen. Even Robert Fisk describes the left over fighters as "hopeless and pathetic". At the same time he admires their courage, sort of as a level of insanity. The US is going to steal the oil, and the peasants living there will get nothing. And because they have nothing, they can't fight back. Slavery works. And it's coming to the US soon I bet (as soon as Hatch finishes Patriot 2 in permentent form). Who's going to fire the first shot of revolution in the US? Oh I forgot, OK City was the first shot. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike