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I have been monitoring the methalif.org blog that Lou posted to. I cannot gather much detail about the author. He is a teacher but does not speak Arabic. He uses English rather than French. His blog provides a great deal of very instructive local colour, but politically his views are extremely naive especially with regard to the role of the army. He seems to have total faith in it. He recounts one story of the a soldier telling people to find any weapon they could and to wear a white arm band to indicate they were against the militia/police /terrorists. So we have the sight of brave people with sticks defending makeshift barricades against thugs armed with machine guns. It does not seem to have occurred to him (Methalif) that the correct and radical thing for the soldiers to have done would have been to pass out guns to the people. Tthat would have put an end to the pro-Ben Alei thugs, and it would have also have moved everything into a much more revolutionary situation. Methalif repeats the people love the Army but that love if it is real is a potential problem. comradely Gary ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
