Local Tyrants and the American Empire

[Dennis Breslin]

From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> 
> Local tyrants who fell out of favor with the American Empire, with 
> all their brutality and cruelty, are better antagonists of the masses 
> than the American Empire and its new lackeys, for the simple reason 
> that the latter have bigger guns & more ammunitions and are thus 
> harder for the masses to overthrow and expel.
> -- 
> Yoshie
> 

You underestimate both the brutality and durability of local tyrants.
And I wonder, especially in the cross-cutting internal conflicts that
is Afghanistan, who might pose as an acceptable stand-in for the
masses? Is your take exempt from the very problem posed to
liberal western feminists who apparently have insufficiently
historized and contextualized the plight of Afghan women 
while at the same time sensationalizing and conflating their
experiences?

Dennis