Declan Murphy wrote:

> While I mean no disrespect to the publishers of those websites (well
> with a fair bit of disrespect to be honest)

I'm not sticking up for the websites as such, I'm just interested in what
kind of relationship exists (if any) Eric's characterisation of imperialism
and the characterisations of US actions as merely another form of of "evil"
imperialism. Would he see a parallel, or would he say, basically, British
and Japanese occupation of other countries was inherently and utterly bad,
but US occupation is inherently and utterly good?

> I would argue that compared
> to the demonstrations a more eloquent example of how some of the locals
> view their "liberators" is the number of attacks being made by the Iraqi
> resistance.
[snip]
> And unless the US/UK military increase in
> overall size or make a substantial reallocation of the deployment of
> forces in Europe and Asia, its hard to see many of the troops stuck in
> Iraq being rotated out soon.

Well, yes, I don't think this is quite the reception the US envisaged and
Britain is making quite strong signals that it wants to get out. Funny,
after Northern Ireland you'd think the Brits would know it's generally a lot
easier to get into these kinds of situations than out of them, but I suppose
each generation has to learn these things afresh.

--
John
http://rarebooksinjapan.com