"Stay Behind" strategies in Iraq

Mike Rosing eresrch at eskimo.com
Thu Apr 10 20:06:41 PDT 2003


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





More information about the cypherpunks-legacy mailing list