>So, what do you think of the armed struggles of Palestinians,
>Colombians, and Filipinos today?
Palestinians targeting the IDF or Pal collaborators - that's fine with me. Targeting civilians, as in bombing busses and cafes, is not. I don't know enough about FARC to judge, but I don't think they represent the Colombian masses. Filipinos, sorry, don't know enough to answer.
> What will be John Kerry's policy toward them?
Opposed, no doubt.
> And Kerry's policy toward Iraqis?
Which Iraqis?
If you're trying to get me to say that Kerry would be an imperialist thug, I've already said that. He is, after all, running for chief executive of the world bourgeoisie, as the Sparts like to say. As I've said probably a hundred times, I have no illusions about what he or any other Dem would be like as president.
I also liked this portion of John Lacny's post very much:
>Finally, there's the attempt on the attempt on their apart to engage in
>grade-school moralizing about how the Iraqi armed actors are no less
>repugnant than John Kerry. Chiefly because Doug has asked people to refrain
>from desist from discussing the elections, I will not say much on this, save
>that it's further indication that these people are too far out of touch with
>the problems of their OWN people in THIS country -- something which is a
>prerequisite for effective international solidarity, of the kind that takes
>people as they are and does not romanticize struggle either here or anywhere
>else. I should say that I have not encountered a single organizer engaged in
>base work among the oppressed and exploited in this country -- poor people's
>organizing and advocacy, union organizing, what-have-you -- who denies the
>absolute necessity of defeating the current regime. So my question to the
>people who DO deny it is, isn't it possible that the people are the real
>heroes, and that we "revolutionaries" are often foolish and ignorant?
>Shouldn't we at least sometimes take the lead from them, particularly when
>the sentiments they express are so overwhelming? Are they perhaps trying to
>tell us something?
Doug