What was your proposal? Do nothing?
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> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 2:05 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org; furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Does Al Qaeda Exist?
>
> >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> >>Of course, it is possible that discussion of terrorism at LBO-talk,
> >>like the Bush Team's propaganda for mass consumption, is so dumbed
> >>down that the real question that Sheer and BBC are asking cannot be
> >>discussed intelligently.
> >
> >You're our last defense against idiocy!
> >
> >Doug
>
> Well, it took you about four years to recognize what I, as well as
> about 5% of all Americans and 20% of all Black Americans, said in
> 2001: invading Afghanistan (or any other nation for that matter) has
> nothing to do with apprehending the 9/11 terrorists or preventing
> future acts of terrorism.
>
> Back then, you were busy asking such senseless questions as "are you
> willing to take a spore for the anti-empire?" at
> <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2001/2001-October/022481.html>,
> convinced that someone needs to invade Afghanistan (though you would
> have preferred the United Nations rather than Washington to do it),
> as if any military could have accomplished anything there in the way
> of stopping terrorism.
>
> From your interview with Christian Parenti, I conclude that the only
> thing that the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan has achieved,
> which has indeed become a multinational affair by now, is to raise
> the price of real estate and costs of living in Kabul.
> --
> Yoshie
>
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