[lbo-talk] Polls about "Iraq" and "Terrorism" Re: how's it feel?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 12:52 PM -0400 4/17/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>Figuring out most Americans' reasoning is like analyzing a Monty 
>>Python sketch.  I believe the thinking goes like this:  Saddam 
>>wasn't responsible for the 9/11 attacks, but the attacks were just 
>>the type of thing he would have done if he'd had the opportunity.
>
>Slavoj argues, in the interview I'll be broadcasting later today, 
>that the "reasoning" is this: AQ hates America, SH hates America, so 
>they're all the same and must be destroyed.

I don't think that's true.  Neither AQ nor SH has been confirmed to 
have died, nor have they been captured by the USG, in short, they 
have not been "destroyed," but Americans don't seem to care.
-- 
Yoshie

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