A simple "yes you're overestimating us" would have done.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Carrol Cox Sent: 11 September 2002 22:49 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: Anniversary
Liza Featherstone wrote:
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> Hear, hear. But does anyone seriously disagree with this? If the U.S. were
> simply seeking to rid the world of Al Qaeda, rather than preparing to
> overthrow whole governments with no proven ties to AQ, and to slaughter
> thousands more innocents, I'd like to think no leftists would seriously
> object. Am I overestimating us?
The duty of the left in the U.S. is the same as the duty of the left in all imperialist nations before WW 1 and of the left in Italy & Germany in the 1930s.
Even if Qaeda is destroyed by the U.S. that destruction would only lead to more terrible forces even than Al Qaeda in the middle east. You are urging us to support eternal war against the human species just to get at one very nasty bunch, though they lack the power to be 1/100 as nasty as the U.S.
You are on a slippery slope.
Carrol
> Liza