delicate times for the left

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at attbi.com>
>
>Did the left lose the war?
>
>Kabul fell in five weeks. The Islamic world has not
>erupted. So did the left get it all wrong - and does it
>matter?
>
>Andy Beckett
>Thursday January 17, 2002
>The Guardian
>
>... These are delicate times for the left, in Britain and
>elsewhere. First, two of its traditional enemies, the
>Pentagon and New York's financial district, were bloodily
>assaulted. Then, the leaders of this revolt against
>American dominance of the world were revealed, almost
>certainly, to be religious radicals of considerable
>ideological ambiguousness. Then the traditional instruments
>of American oppression in the eyes of its critics - bombing
>and the use of dubious allies - were deployed in response,
>with apparent success. And a solid majority of the British
>public approved, as did the great majority of
>left-of-centre politicians in Britain and abroad.

As Beckett says, ObL & Co. are "religious radicals of considerable 
ideological ambiguousness" and not surrogates for the left.  Al Qaeda's 
speedy apparent collapse simply clears the decks, permitting the public to 
focus on issues that bring profound discredit to capitalists -- with Enron 
being issue #1.  In the US at least, I don't see how these are "delicate 
times for the left."

Carl

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