The Left and 9/11

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Fri Sep 13 12:23:51 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Grimes" <cgrimes at rawbw.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 8:42 AM Subject: Re: The Left and 9/11


> To say that Afghanistan is better off after months of US bombing and
> occupation, is like saying Hitler did some good things too, like
> building the Autoban and the VW. Well, probably okay as far as that
> goes. So fucking what.

Germany, Europe, and the world most certainly did not benefit on balance from Hitler's actions. Afghanistan, on balance, appears likely to benefit from US intervention. There's your "so fucking what."

-- Luke



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