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...Moslem Sectarian Strife: A great deal of misinformation has been spread in the Western press concerning religious differences in Iraq. It is true that religious and sectarian differences could create problems in some countries, but not in Iraq. I am not saying we do not have any problems at all. Any leader would prefer his people to think from one point of view, to be of one religion, one sect, in one city. The Iraqi people think from various angles but agree on one central point. We have Sunnis and Shi'ites here, that is a fact...
...hands see sectarian differences among the newcomers. The Republican rookies tend to feel a greater loyalty to their party than do the Democrats because the Republican National Committee has more computer-collected campaign funds to distribute. But the younger Republicans also tend to be more rigidly ideological and militant on issues than their predecessors. Arizona Congressman John Rhodes gave up his post as Minority Leader two years ago, largely because he got fed up with the daily grind of trying to reason with unreasonable newcomers. By contrast, many recently elected Democrats ignored local party organizations, made it to Congress...
Herself, that's who. Herself and a whole generation or two of leftists, mostly intellectuals and mostly New Yorkers, who actually spent some or all of their lives in the thrall of sectarian myth. And maybe, more to the point, a somewhat larger number of"60s types who glorified a bit too strenuously the virtues of Fidel and Ho and Mao Sontag belongs, more or less, in both categories; she was born into the Manhattan neo-Stalinist school of the '30s and '40s (though she was never a supporter) and in the '60s revived her interest in Matters political...
...Sectarianism in any quarter is an obstacle to the emancipation of mankind. Both types of sectarian, treating history in an equally proprietary fashion, end up without the people--which is another way of being against them," writes Paolo Freire, the brilliant Brazilian educator, in The Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The view of past history held by rightists and of future history held by sectarian leftists makes them impervious to reality. Open to the world, it will be harder for this generation--an all the generations that follow--to be radical. What Sontag and others of her place and time remind...
...flirting with the dead. Patrick was 15. He was very tall, wore his hair cut short and resembled a policeman. They say that is how he was shot by mistake. Dead too is Elizabeth's grandfather, who was run down by a car in what appeared to be a sectarian killing. And then there was Elizabeth's mother, killed mistakenly in a crossfire between the I.R.A. and the army...