Carrol Cox wrote:
I think the emphasis should be on the (rather generally applicable) perception that when 1/3 (actually, 1/5 might do it) of a population are strongly committed to a negative point, they become rather difficult to suppress. Living in an electoral democracy tends to blur this point by over-emphasizing the need for majority support. Some of us predicted on the basis of polls in Iraq showing something like 15% core rejection of the occupation that the Occupation was a dead duck. Others, carrying over irrelevant electoral habits, made a big fuss about the large numbers not wanting immediate withdrawal -- numbers which were really irrelevant.
Lemme see if I understand this: if a majority of Iraqis didn't want immediate withdrawal, their opinion really shouldn't count, becuase that's just some distraction brought over from electoral politics?
Doug
