The Left and 9/11

Cian co015d5200 at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Sep 13 11:36:16 PDT 2002


Marc Rodrigues said:
>
> The opinion emanating from many list members seems to be, "Afghanistan
> is better off now after US intervention."

Well its wrong because Afghanistan is in a highly unstable state and totally dependent upon western forces to keep civil war at bay.


> Inherent in such a statement is a chauvinism based on an innate (white)
> racial and "western" superiority complex, one that drives even those
> on the "left" to let the word "civilizing" slip out of their mouths to
> speak about what the US did in Afghanistan.

As opposed to the Taliban forcing themselves onto a country that mostly didn't want them you mean? Or is that okay because they're not white?

The US culture is, for all its many faults, superior to the Taliban. To pretend otherwise is self-hating idiocy.



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