Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Wed Sep 26 08:55:40 PDT 2001


On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Carl Remick wrote:


> >From: brettk at unicacorp.com
> >
> > >US has not been terrorized by Latin Americans (where the US behavior was
> > >truly deplorable) but has been terrorized by Middle Easterns, even though
> > >the US role there has been quite beneficial (cf. preventing the European
> > >retaliation for the nationalization of the Suzez Canal by Naser, forcing
> > >the return of Sinai to Egypt, liberation of Kuwait, not to mention a
> >steady
> > >influx of petro-dollars)?
> >
> >The US hasn't been terrorized by any Latin American groups ...
>
> Not as such. But what about the FALN (Armed Forces of National Liberation),
> the Puerto Rican independence group that claimed responsibility or was
> blamed for 130 bombings, mostly in New York and Chicago, in the 1970s and
> early '80s?
>
> Carl

The car bombing and death of Orlando Letelier by the Chilean military...in D.C.

Steve



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