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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43956)5/29/2003 11:28:47 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re: "As Baghdad is about to fall and Ayotallah of Najaf issues fatwa to help coalition in present ground realties I can only say see the equivalence to North Vietnam if Hanoi was about to fall and Giap had issued a 'fatwa' to help the US forces. The end game starts on the 14th day."

(1) The fatwa was not to "help" US forces, but instead not to get in their way.

(2) The guy who gave it is dead now, killed by the Iraqis themselves.

(3) Hanoi was the capital city of the Vietnamese. Cairo or Riyadh is the capital city of the Arabs, so your comparison fails logically.

Our problem in Vietnam was that Vietnamese speaking rebels, supported out of parts of Vietnam that we did not occupy, supported the rebels in South Vietnam. Similarly, our (long term) problem in Iraq is that Arab speakers outside of Iraq will support rebels in Iraq against us.

The basic problem is that peoples who share a language tend to help each other out against foreigners. Other examples of this abound. The German speaking parts of Europe supported Hitler. The English speaking parts of the world have a long history of mutual support. The ancient Greek colonies united against Persia.

That the Arabs would do the same thing against us as they did against Israel (that is, provide support to rebels in occupied territories) was entirely predictable.

-- Carl
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