On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Dan Minette wrote:
> But, that's not where we are. As far as I can tell from the opinion
> polls and other reports, the opinion of the US held by the people of
> Iraq is souring. We are being seen less as liberators and more as
> foreign occupiers. While the idea that people would welcome anyone who
> delivered them from a tyrant with open arms sounds extremely logical;
> things can often be more complex than this. For example, intervention
> in abusive families often/usually results in the victims of the abuse
> feeling resentment and anger towards the outside agency that intervenes.
> The shame of needing outside intervention to handle an internal matter
> can be very high. Different people/countries can handle that type of
> shame in different manners. Everything that I've seen indicates that
> people in that region are very concerned with face, and are willing to
> lie through their teeth in order to preserve face.
Think globally, analogize locally?
Julia
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