[lbo-talk] Does Al Qaeda Exist?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu
>Wed Jan 12 14:49:59 PST 2005
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>This is scurrilous and self-aggrandizing as usual.  Doug advocates a 
>real solution to this problem, which may or may not have required an 
>international invasion of Afghanistan.  We'll never know, because 
>things obviously never happened in the proper internationalist, 
>police-first way Doug favored, in combination with change in U.S. 
>policies. 
>
>What was your proposal?  Do nothing?

Doug didn't advocate a "police-first" way.  He advocated an invasion 
by a military force.  Spain didn't invade Morocco, nor did the United 
Nations, in response to the terrorist attack in Madrid.  What did the 
Spanish government do instead?  They looked for suspects and arrested 
them.  That's as good as it gets under capitalism.  Saves a lot of 
lives and money.  This point is worth emphasizing, as there is no 
guarantee that a big terrorist attack on American soil won't happen 
again in the near future.  The next time, no self-respecting leftist 
should advocate any invasion of another nation in response to a 
terrorist attack.
-- 
Yoshie

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