Terror Inc.

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > Why would the US government alter its relations with the Arab world
>>  _for better_ while making war on Afghanistan, setting up new bases in
>>  Central Asia, increasing its military presence in the Middle East,
>>  sending troops to the Philippines, & upgrading Plan Colombia from the
>>  rhetoric of the "war on drugs" to an explicit defense of oil
>>  pipelines, supporting the (thankfully failed) coup against Chavez in
>>  Venezuela, preparing a war on Iraq, etc.?  There is no factual basis
>>  for your fantasy, pleasant as it may be to dream on.
>
>>  Yoshie
>
>If anyone lives in a fantasy land, it's you Yoshie, dreaming about how your
>Leninist concept of politics will somehow take root among the poor and
>dispossessed of America. You are always banging on about organizing a "real"
>left; yet when a prime issue like this arises out of the smoke and ash of
>Ground Zero, where a "real" left committed to actual lives could make a
>difference, you raise your fist in the air and pretend it's 1969 all over
>again. The US was a growing empire in 1941, had invaded Nicaragua, had
>imperial/financial intentions in Asia and South America, allowed racial
>segregation at home among other sins. So what right did we have to attack
>the Germans or the Japanese? And why did the left of that period support
>imperial America? Were they living in a dream world?
>
>DP

You accuse me of living in 1969, but it seems you are living by the 
metaphors of "the Good War."  We are neither in the 60s nor in the 
beginning of WW2.  My post simply asked you to take a realistic look 
at the US government and the Middle East in the 21st century.  I 
reiterate that there is no ground for believing that the US war on 
Afghanistan and other interventions make things better for the Arab 
masses, whatever arguments US leftists (especially given the size of 
the Left today, even if one defines the Left in the broadest possible 
sense) make.  The Arab masses don't share your fantasy, as it should 
be obvious to you.
-- 
Yoshie

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