Hitchens At War

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 27 08:23:08 PDT 2001


Ted Winslow wrote:


>Doug asks:
>
>> Where does Tariq Ali ever say that?
>
>In the passage I quoted.
>
>"They ['the groups that carried out the attack on the United States'] are
>'liberals with a bomb'."
>
>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



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