> From: "Al Qaeda’s Fantasy Ideology
> By Lee Harris"
>
> http://www.policyreview.org/AUG02/harris.html
Standard right-wing fare. The conservative establishment continues its 30 year plus jihad against the left by trying to link the left with A-Q.
They, of course, define "the left" very broadly. "Liberals," "social democrats," "communists," "anarchists," they're all alike.
To summarize:
"Leftists hold their views for irrelevant psychological reasons. So did the 9/11 hijackers."
"Just look at guys like that Chomsky, trying to make excuses for the hijackers. Yeah, they always blame America first."
"Leftist-millenarian-utopian-fantasists = Muslim-millenarian-utopian-fantasists."
"There's no reasoning with these people, so all there is to do is just stamp them out."
"It's not a political philosophy, but a disease."
(paraphrasing, of course)
Anybody here have any sympathy with a bunch of right-wing religious fanatics who flew planes into skyscrapers (speaking of airplanes)? RWRFs who might have been playing footsie with the CIA, but were all along pursuing their own agenda? RWRFs who were at the very least abetted and encouraged by the US gov't trying to stick a thumb in the eye of the fSU in Afghanistan? A-Q is like a Frankenstein's monster that turned on its master. Except it wasn't the master who paid the price, but some of the master's subjects, who ended up jumping out of windows from 90 floors up to get away from the fire. Blowback, man.
Right-wing bastards like this Lee Harris who wrote the Policy Review piece are simply repellent.
Jacob Conrad