Dear Soula: You ask: " the apparent readiness for suicide attacks etc. this suicide is new to the near east, records show that unlike Hungary or Denmark, suicides on the Persian gulf are few and far between. what could drive people to do that en masse must be seminally related to a social condition that nurture the culture of suicide or mass suicide. for instance, in eastern Europe, Russia,"
Forgive me, but perhaps I do not understand your point. But surely the explanation is a rather simple one? And incorporates a correct view - of the Iraqis, that Iraqi soil should not be dominated by foreign imperialism. Although bourgeois intelligentsia have often been disparaging of mere 'nationalism' in the era of 'globalisation' - this is patently an un-realistic and un-human viewpoint. It is indisupatable that the Iraqi peoples have suffered enormously under Saddam [See Alliance Monthly at http://harikumar.brinkster.net/PAPER/FEBRUARY2003/TABLECONTENTS.html Article recaptiualitng old data that Saddam was first propped by USSR social-imperilms, and then by USA imepriasim etc: http://harikumar.brinkster.net/PAPER/FEBRUARY2003/SADDAM.html ] BUT - the Iraqi peoples "read the books printed in Cairo" goes the saying in the Souk. Hari Kumar
