Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Sun Sep 30 09:24:31 PDT 2001


At 11:57 AM 9/30/01 -0400, Chip Berlet wrote:
>Kelley,
>
>These terrorists are clerical fascists, they want a theocratic Islamic
>patriarchy running the world.

oh really? running the world?


> They don't JUST want the US out of the Middle
>East, they want an even more theocratic and fundamentalist Saudi Arabia
>that already practices one of the most repressive and reactionary forms of
>Islam. It's not pure enough for these terrorists.

you know nothing of the sort, do you? you do not know who did this or why they did this. how do you account for Atta drinking? and the one who lived with his girlfriend? the very strange note to the kamikaze hijackers was either badly interpreted by CIA wonks or not much of an example of fundamentalism. a strange bunch of fundamentalists eh?

the fact remains, if it is bin Laden, they want _in part_, the US out of the ME and they want our policies toward Israel and SA to change. we are responding to their act of terrorism to achieve those ends--we hope. we are hoping to mobilize the rest of the US to help attain those ends: a changed US policy in the ME.

kelley



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