So is anyone else creeped out by the fact that the self-styled "Progressive Review" is promoting the quasi-fascist xenophobe Pat Buchanan along with a link to the whacko-right World Net Daily?
So we oppose empire by being apologists for racism, sexism, heterosexism, and antisemitism?
Not the dance partners I had in mind for the cyber-cabaret revolution...
Where is Joel Grey when you really need him?
-Chip
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 5:46 PM
> To: lbo-talk
> Subject: Pat Buchanan, apologist for terror
>
>
> At 4:43 PM -0400 5/31/02, PROGRESSIVE REVIEW wrote:
>
> >Patrick J. Buchanan, world net daily - The price of empire
> is terror. The
> >price of occupation is terror. The price of interventionism
> is terror . . .
> >Before, not after, the next terror attack on this country,
> America's leaders
> >should start telling the truth: Evil though they may be,
> Islamic killers are
> >over here because we are over there. They are not trying to
> kill us because
> >they dislike our domestic politics, but because they detest
> our foreign
> >policy. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia.
> They did not fly
> >into those twin towers to protest universal suffrage or to
advance
> >self-determination for the Palestinian people. As Osama bin
> Laden said, they
> >want us to stop propping up the Saudi regime they hate, and
> to get off the
> >sacred Saudi soil on which sit the holiest shrines of Islam.
> They want our
> >troops out of Saudi Arabia and if we don't get out, they
> are coming over
> >here to kill us any way they can. That is reality. Now
> while America should
> >use every weapon in her arsenal, from intelligence to
> diplomacy to war, to
> >prevent terror and to punish terror, we must address the
> central issue:
> >terror on American soil, and eventual cataclysmic and atomic
> terror on
> >American soil, is the price of American empire. Is the
> empire worth it?
> >French, Brits, even Soviets said no. They went home. And
> nothing over there
> >not oil, not bases in Saudi Arabia, not global hegemony is
> worth risking
> >nuclear terror over here. I may be the only right-winger in
> America who
> >loves D.C., but then I grew up here. Washington is my
> hometown. It comes
> >first, and empire isn't even a close second.
> >
> >http://worldnetdaily.com
>