Charles Januzzi wrote:
The Sunni Resistance of the sort
that fought it out with the US over Anbar and continue to do so has
shown itself quite resilient and coherent--for a Resistance. And it
has no superpower sponsorship, unlike the NLF in Vietnam...
Reslient, yes - but I'm not sure what
The answer is, and always was, back the U.S.'s play on Iraq and Iran.
Despite the autocratic old islamic ways and patina of fundamentalist
religion, the sole interest of the Saudi government is secular $$$, and
if the west takes II's oil, it takes the pressure off Saudi Arabia to
suck what
Peace, Land and Bread for all on Earth !
A Russian Revolutionary Merry Christmas
from the Bolsheviks
On 12/22/06, Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's an old Buster Keaton short (I think it was Keaton) in which two
gas stations facing across a road in the desert get into a price war.
They both keep taking down their signs and scribbling a lower price.
Then a car (driven by a woman I
Scholarships are merely discounted tickets for the seat. Just like
airfares, where the business traveler is gouged and then the seats
are filled with holiday travelers. The discrimination in priceamong
college students is rampant.
Gene Coyle
On Dec 23, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Why is China so worried about Falun Gong? Its stance would seem to be
consistent
with a right-wing image of a communist society, but why would capitalist China
feel
threatened?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail
On 12/23/06, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is China so worried about Falun Gong?
Its stance would seem to be consistent
with a right-wing image of a communist society,
but why would capitalist China feel
threatened?
China has a history of religiously inspired, powerful mass
It's capitalism with bureaucratic state socialism, where the CPC still
weilds considerable control over ideological matters. Hence, there is
still an attempt to separate the spheres of politics and economy on the
part of the Chinese politburo.
Cheers, anthony
About the Sunni Resistance, MG writes (in reply to me earlier):
Reslient, yes - but I'm not sure what you mean by coherent and why you
objected to my saying the Sunni resistance is more limited than that which
arose in Vietnam. Is there an organization in Iraq comparable to the NLF
representing
