Re: Swedish Account of Looting in Iraq

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Pour" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: Swedish Account of Looting in Iraq


> Sagie Sokolov wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday 15 April 2003 22:33, Andreas Pour wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.rense.com/general37/eyewitnesscharges.htm ?  Anyone from
the
> > > area know the reputation of this newspaper?
> > >
> > > The story supposedly is about Khaled Bayomi, a "PhD student at the
> > > University of Lund", who accuses the US of instigating the looting in
> > > Baghdad, and also has an interesting take on the mysterious
dissolution of
> > > organized resistance in Baghdad.
> >
> > Is there any chance that the Arabs will ever be held accountable for
their own
> > actions, or is it too much to ask? Unless we're talking here about the
"Noble
> > Savages", who are not suitable anyway to be held to such a "high"
standard.
> > Or maybe it's that introspection, self criticism and personal
accountability
> > are too alien to 'Islamic Culture'. Whatever.
>
> Do you realize what a total hateful racist you sound like?  My God, I am
> stunned.
>
> Were there not Russians soldiers that have killed Russian civilians?  Were
there
> not Jews that worked as guards in the concentration camps?  And who do you
blame
> for those things - generalized comments about the inferiority of Russians
and
> Jews, i.e., racist comments?
>
> Even though Americans are not nearly as poor as the most poverty-stricken
> individuals in Baghdad who have endured 10 years of sanctions (if in fact
the
> looter core came from Baghdad as opposed to being shipped in for that
purpose,
> the facts are not really very clear on this one), I would hate to see what
would
> happen here if anarchy erupted and an invading army was encouraging people
to
> loot, particularly along racial or religious lines (in the case of Iraq,
the
> Shi-ites against the Sunnis).
>
> Logic aside, the Geneva Convention clearly indicates who the responsible
party
> is for maintaining order.
>
> And finally, the point really is one of realizing what is going on.
> Encouragement of looting, massacaring civilians, and destroying a
millenia-old
> cultural heritage - the history of the cradle of civilization, if you
will - do
> not sound to me like "liberating".
I have to agree with Sagie on this one, the arabs are never being held
responsible*, but
the U.S. is being held responsible*, can't you agree with me on that?
*: Here in Sweden, that is, I don't how it is in the rest of the world.

PS. I don't have anything against either arabs nor the U.S. DS.
Cheers, Per


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