second-wave attacks

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon May 20 07:04:50 PDT 2002


Dennis Perrin wrote:


>Others may see it as
>anti-imperial resistance.

Really? You can see the Taliban as a product of imperialism - of the anti-Soviet manipulations of the 1970s and 1980s, of Washington's promotion of reactionary Islamism as a counter to secular leftism - without seeing it as something admirable.

Doug



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