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From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net>
>
> Yes, really Chuck0 should be happy, since from an anarchist
> standpoint the revolution in Afghanistan is now complete.
> [Come over to 17th & L for a drink sometime Chuck; I miss
> being followed by police. Losing my edge.]
>
> Hitch's gloating shifts focus from his subject to his sodden self,
perhaps
> intentionally. But on the subject front, he is mostly right. What
> has happened so far has been good. People can't bear the
> thought that it is due to the U.S. Gov (and even worse, trust-fund
> baby Bush; worse still, for bad motives!), since it explodes their
> understanding of the world. If you don't like Taliban symps
> being shot in the street, go watch the film footage of Taliban
> clubbing women who flash some ankle.
>
> And the fact that some violence and suffering is the cost offends
> pacifist sensibilities. (If your only contingency for the
justifiable
> use of force is wholly imaginary and unlikely, then as that sappy
> comic says, "you may be a pacifist." Not to worry, you could have
> done a lot worse. You could have ended up in "Workers World"!!
>
> It's not as good as Marx, but it's original:
> idealist merely fret about the inevitable;
> realists think about how to rechannel it.
>
> mbs
>
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Inevitability does not exist.
What were you doing during the Viet Nam war? Don't you miss it's Manichaean eloquence?
Ian