IRAQI BLOGGER ON BAATH IDEOLOGY: Interesting post at Friends of Democracy by Shirko Mula Qadir, describing in vigorous English the history and intellectual ancestry of the Baath Party. Qadir makes a case for Nazi-like racial politics at the heart of Baathism, aimed at Shiites, Kurds, and Iranians. Like all good mafias, the Baathists in both Syria and Iraq spent almost as much time killing one another as they did abusing their captive populations. Almost. My favorite quote:
I've said it before: the conflict between different wings of the Baath was not a fight between good and bad. It was a fight between bad and worse. Saddam's wing won that fight because his was the worst. Saddam reached the top by climbing on the corpses of his colleagues.
Take a read. The vivid prose alone makes it worthwhile.
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