----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis" <dperrin13 at mediaone.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:31 AM Subject: Re: Allies and opponents of US fall silent
> I never said I signed on to this war, especially in the way it has played
> out (mostly on the bodies of Afghan civilians), but I did say that
al-Qaida
> is a threat, which it is, and that this must be included in any critique
or
> action, radical or otherwise. One can, indeed must, assail US expansionism
> and the domestic efforts to lock down dissent; but there is a
decentralized
> network in the wider world that is committed to killing as many Americans
> (and non-Americans) as it can, using whatever tools it has. It is not a
> liberation force, it is a violent theocratic gang that won't stop until it
> is stopped, and how it can be stopped should be part of any discussion
"we"
> on the "left" have. In other words, we cannot pretend that it is some
minor
> irritant that will go away in due course. The challenge is incorporating
all
> this into an understandable argument. Not easy by any means.
>
> DP
How about getting rid of the Taliban? Didn't they cause more suffering than al Queda, if one is to accept the premise that the two are separable?
-- Luke