On 5/12/05, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But to the extent that the gov't hires mercenaries, it is getting away > from such a monopoly. We should remember that Weber's definition of > the state was an "ideal type" (a model, an ideal). Not all > organizations called "states" fit the ideal completely. Some fit it > better than others. The US-run state in Iraq is far from the ideal, > partly because of the insurgency and partly because of the important > role of "friendly" militias and hired guns.
------------------------- I think naming the resistance in Iraq an insurgency concedes too much to the Pentagon and White House. Were the North Vietnamese insurgents?
