From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 09:30:55 MDT
Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Randall Randall wrote:
>> They're not stopping the looting because they don't want the tentative
>> victory they have to turn into a mess with every other civilian against
>> them. A few palaces and government buildings being looted is, I'm
>> sure, seen as a trivial price for keeping the populace rejoicing, rather
>> than shooting.
>
> Ah, no. UN facilities were looted. Aid facilities and supplies in
> southern areas were looted. In some areas power is out because power
> facilities have been stripped bare. In short, and probably because in
> part of uncertainty as to what comes next, any thing not tied down and
> guarded is subject to looting. This is not trivial. It could seriously
> weaken what is left of the infrastructure to build upon.
I'm not sure why you prefaced that with 'Ah, no". :) You don't seem to
disagree with anything I said. I did not say that the looting was trivial,
but that the US military sees it as trivial, in comparison to their goal
of consolidating US control of Iraq with as little civilian resistance as
possible.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> 'Institute regime change everywhere... to "None of the above."' -- Alex Future Bokov
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