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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (126629)	3/19/2004 11:40:36 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (2) of 281500

CHRISTIAN PARENTI: Well, I think that one of the main -- if this -- if the US loses this is counterinsurgency war, it will be primarily because it has completely messed up the political and economic side. Militarily, the US has total dominance. In all guerilla wars, the political and economic side is key. That's how the Brits won in Malaysia was by really creating a functioning, legitimate government. That's why the US lost in Vietnam. It could not create a functioning, legitimate puppet government or create meaningful economic reform. So if in five years down the line the resistance has grown, the US is beleaguered, the army is breaking down and about to pull out, a lot of that will have to do with the fact that billions upon billions of dollars had been, literally, given away to these firms that then don't repair the roads, don't repair the sewers, don't repair the water or the electrical systems and telephone systems and in the process don't hire Iraqis to do this and succeed in alienating the population there. democracynow.org

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