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Dear Bob, You hit the nail on the head with the "protection racket" point, but I cannot think how Iraqis, vandalized, raped, terrorized, and divided as they are, could "get their act together now and mount a unified effort to form a government of their own". I wish they could, but I am afraid you are much too optimistic in saying that. In fact, it seems they are looking to the occupiers to sort things out, just as the disrespectful bunch of the 'international community' do. Best, Attila Hungary > It is an established tactic by big corporations and imperialists to seize > control of a resource or area by first manipulating a situation into > crisis proportions. "Destablization" it's often called. It's not so > different from the old protection racket, where a gang vandalizes and > terrorizes a neighborhood and then sells "protection", but in this case > it's the "official bandits", AKA the government which does it. If the > imperialists want control of a nation, all they have to do is > destabilize, and install their puppet dictator when the people clamor for > order. When the tyrant turns on the empire they have an excuse to go to > war. > This was done in Iran, Iraq, is in progress in Saudi Arabia, and many > other places. The Iraqis need to get their act together now and mount a > unified effort to form a government of their own to address the various > crises such as water, power, education, health, food, finance and > security. Any lapse will provide that much more excuse for the US/UK to > assume control as they wish. Naturally they will need help, and must > demand it from the UN, the occupying countries, and get help from any > other nations they can bargain or ally with. Otherwise it's out of the > frying pan and into the fire. _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk