>--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm reluctant to fiddle with the admirable brevity of your four- >word > > upsumming Art, but the word "ideology" can cause some confusion. > > Whatever their political ideology might be, occupied peoples >fighting > > back share the common motive of rejecting occupation, and I think > > that's the ideology that counts here. Perhaps the American >treatment > > of the British colonial superpower would illustrate that best. > > > > Best > > > > Keith > > > >This analogy is not quite complete. The US Americans were helped >along against one colonial superpower (UK) by another colonial >superpower (France). The Afghans also got superpower assistance >against the USSR, as did the vietcong against the US. I think a more >apt analogy would refer to the irish republican and palestinian >causes. These are still both unraveling. > >Pierre
Of course you're quite right Pierre. I riffled through a bunch of other possibilities first and found them all fraught with complications, what a surprise, us yewmin beans bein' such simple uncomplicated critters and our squabbles too. Still, even with superpower assistance, I don't think the mujahedeen came close to matching Soviet firepower, nor could the Vietcong match that of the US (except sometimes). One could perhaps find an example of the opposite for each case that demonstrates Art's principle, but I believe it's true nonetheless. The "Return of people's war" piece makes some good points. You can see it unfolding in Iraq, as so many people warned would happen well before the invasion, along with everything else. Maybe the worst can still be averted, though I can't see how. Best wishes Keith Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
