[lbo-talk] terrorism? forget about it

Chris Doss itschris13 at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 9 08:44:38 PDT 2003



>From: uvj at vsnl.com


>
>How has India converted its struggle against terrorism into America's
>global war on terrorism?

Yeah, it's more the opposite.


> > In every case the basic quarrel is about territory,
>
>The basic quarrel is about the very idea of a secular and democratic India
>and its existence.
>
>Ulhas

You don't understand. For the Western political commentator class, any time a non-Western country engages in armed conflict against a numerically smaller foe, it's Imperialism. Fred Weir was soooo disappointed to discover that Chechen terrorism exists. Slave trade? Mass kidnappings in maternity hospitals? Invasion of Dagestan? Never happened. It's all Russia's fault.
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