10 Things Martin Luther King Would have Done about Iraq (Juan Cole)

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We do not have Martin among us to guide us with his wisdom. But it is not hard to extrapolate from his "Beyond Vietnam" address of 1967 to what he would think about the Iraq morass.

He would say we have to treat with the Sunni Arabs and the Shiite Sadrists. We have to treat with the enemy. Not only for their sakes, for the sake of ruined cities like Fallujah and Tal Afar, and those to come-- but for our own sakes.

1. Martin urged the end of the offensive bombing raids.



' Number one: End all bombing in North and South Vietnam. '


The US has increased the number of its bombing raids in Iraq from 25 a month last summer to 150 in December. Bombing raids are very bad counter-insurgency tactics and should be rethought.

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http://www.juancole.com/2006/01/10-things-martin-luther-king-would.html