After they win... (was: Re: Note to the "ladder of force left"

[Kelley]

At 12:41 PM 10/20/01 -0400, Kelley wrote:
>At 11:26 AM 10/20/01 -0500, Lou Paulsen wrote:
>
>>Yeah, well, that's the price we pay for not being more attentive
>>while the US was murdering socialists, secular reformers, democrats, and so
>>on, all those years.  In the short run it would mean a victory for kings 
>>and Islamists and even some people like the Taliban, but in the long run, 
>>and maybe not so long, in the absence of the US money-and-arms machine, 
>>the left opposition will re-emerge.

also, i'd like you and others to recognize that many many lives will also 
be lost in order to achieve your goal of building a viable left in the ME.

kelley