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

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Oct 20 10:39:50 PDT 2001



>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

Many lives are being lost now, & many more lives will be lost without a viable left in the Middle East, the USA, & the rest of the world.

-- Yoshie

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