Tariq clarifies

Ted Winslow egwinslow at home.com
Thu Sep 27 10:23:48 PDT 2001


Doug wrote:


> Clarification arrived quickly:
>
> At 4:43 PM +0100 9/27/01, Tariq Ali wrote:
>
>> Of course you're right. The word 'liberal' is now good, but Lenin (whose
>> quote
>> that is) regarded liberals with contempt since they backed the Tsar.....
>
> Love the cagey use of "someone once referred."
>
> Doug

I take it then that he isn't suggesting it's obvious that only their means were wrong when he claims that the "obvious" answer to the question, "What made them decide to sacrifice their own lives and thousands of others?", is belief that "the Gulf War was a crime against the people of Iraq", opposition to "the continued occupation of Palestine and Western complicity with the suffering of the Palestinians", and opposition to "the corrupt and hypocritical Arab regimes and venal political leaders who refuse to re-distribute wealth".

Ted



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