Note to the "ladder of force left"

[Chuck0]

Gordon Fitch wrote:
> 
> > > >Besides, nobody is saying the US shouldn't use force in its response to the
> > > >9/11 attacks.  ..
> 
> Chuck0:
> > Ok, I'll say that. I don't think the U.S. has any right to use force in
> > response to those attacks. I base my assertion on the following reasons:
> > ...
> 
> I thought as an anarchist you would say that the U.S. had no
> right to exist as a state, much less do nasty things.  The
> question would then be what kind of political actuality to
> create out of that denial of legitimacy in a context where
> many of its people are angry and frightened and desire security
> or vengeance at almost any price, including their own liberty
> and sense of decency.  The business about rights seems off
> the board to me.  If a state has a right to exist it has a
> right to kill people; that's what states do, it's their métier.

Well, yeah, I pretty much think the U.S. has no right to exist as a
state. 

I guess I'm trying to be pragmatic with my comments, since the U.S.
state isn't going to disappear this year. I can still hope for that
outcome, since stranger things have happened this year. ;-)

The Left, braodly defined, is still figuring out how to respond to this
war. I'm extremely disappointed with talk show Leftists like Hitchens,
who has been taking cheap shots at other Leftists (unless his
anti-Chomsky campaign is a Machiaveliian attempt to get Chomsky more
publicity). I think the Left has to stand up and pursue its agenda, even
if that leads to some unpopular stands.

Chuck0