>Doug asks:
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>> Where does Tariq Ali ever say that?
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>In the passage I quoted.
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>"They ['the groups that carried out the attack on the United States'] are
>'liberals with a bomb'."
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>This is elaborated in the second paragraph.
The "liberals with a bomb" observation follows this:
>It is pressure politics of the sort, which deliberately excludes any
>attempt to mobilize mass support. Someone once referred to them as
>'liberals with a bomb'.
It's an elitist/individualist view of politics in other words.
Doug