Fw: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement

[Gordon Fitch]

> Peter K. wrote:
> > A more modern Iraq would be an example to Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
> > And perhaps it would aid the youthful, modernizing forces of Iran,
> > along with the modernizing elements of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. I wonder
> what Israeli leftists make
> > of this (not the sectarians, folks). Our Israeli friend hasn't posted in
> awhile. If Egypt, Saudi
> > Arabia and Iraq became more modern and  democratic it would be disasterous
> for Likud and helpful to
> > the Palestinian cause (not to mention the Kurdish one).

Ulhas Joglekar:
> I wonder when the North American Left is going to be modernised !

Given that the most modern modernity seems to be 
fundamentalism of the most fanatical and mindless 
sort, one might prefer not to think about it.

-- Gordon