tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post114084317465694190..comments2023-10-25T12:49:50.074+01:00Comments on The Old Socialist Unity Blog - we have moved: Who let the bombs out?ANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1171055146706154662007-02-09T21:05:00.000+00:002007-02-09T21:05:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.The Sentinelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18407669804421969164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1171054788956727122007-02-09T20:59:00.000+00:002007-02-09T20:59:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.The Sentinelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18407669804421969164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1140923766667972632006-02-26T03:16:00.000+00:002006-02-26T03:16:00.000+00:00It's certainly my 'gut feeling' that the US forces...It's certainly my 'gut feeling' that the US forces did not orchestrate this attack - and are probably pulling their hair out because of it... but it's something that's always going to be difficult to prove either way because of the situation over there and I wanted to give some concession to that inability to actually know.<BR/><BR/>Ed's use of the words 'wishful thinking' got me thinking... what do i want to be true? I think I'd like to believe that the US and UK governments had some genuine commitment to making things better in Iraq - but simply had no idea how to go about it. Unfortunately I think the vested interests of those governments and the companies they support make that a very utopian wish indeed.Jim Jeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1140910723518393312006-02-25T23:38:00.000+00:002006-02-25T23:38:00.000+00:00I would go further and say it is highly unlikely t...I would go further and say it is highly unlikely that this was carried out by coalition forces or allies. The US end game must now be to seek some stability to reduce their miitary commitment, and although that may be served by the balkanisation of Iraq, all they need to do to achieve that is make some accomodation with the Sunnis, stoking up intercommunal violence goes against their interest.<BR/><BR/><BR/>On the other hand the Wah-Habi Jihadis do actually hate Shias, and have a record of sectarian violence, not only in Iraq, but systematic discrimination and oppression in saudi, and remember the sectarian killing of the Iranian Consulate staff in Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan by the Taliban in 1998, which nearly brought Iran and Afghanistan to war.<BR/><BR/>There is at least a section of the Jihadis who do not want the US forces to leave iraq, as the current situation suits their interests - and it is partly this which has undermined any iraqi national unity, as could be seen by the lack of nationwide response to the destruction of Falujah , in sharp contrast to the shia solidarity with Sunni Falujah in the earlier seige.ANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05901425044840795347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21995284.post-1140890676268864002006-02-25T18:04:00.000+00:002006-02-25T18:04:00.000+00:00I agree.There's an unwillingness amongst many in t...I agree.<BR/><BR/>There's an unwillingness amongst many in the anti-war movement to accept the probability that the coalition, while surely as you point out 'dirty bastards', is not behind every sectarian attack. <BR/><BR/>Such wishful thinking does nothing for the credibility of the movement. It's symptomatic of a whitewashing and romanticising attitude towards the insurgency.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11986710256832859804noreply@blogger.com