Chechnya: response to Russian invasion?

[Brad De Long]

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>> >Why should we want to support Islamic militants?  Look what happened in
>> >Afghanistan after Russian pullot - women being denied the most basic human
>> >rights, public executions.
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>>That sounds terrible to me. Surely it is a touchstone of the
>>internationalism of people living in western "Christian" countries that
>>they should be able to recognise the right of muslim people to
>>self-determination.
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>>Chris Burford
>>
>>London
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>Doesn't the right of girls in Afghanistan to go to school trump the 
>right of "muslim people"--i.e., male theocrats--to self-determine 
>that girls shall not go to school? I don't see how anyone can look 
>at Afghanistan today and think that what is going on looks 
>significantly worse than really existing socialism looked...
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>Brad DeLong, suddenly reminded of the claim that the U.S. Civil War 
>started because Lincoln and the Republican Party infringed "states' 
>rights" to self determination...

Ahem.

That was supposed to be "I don't see how anyone can look at 
Afghanistan today and not think that what is going on looks 
significantly worse than really existing socialism looked..."