[lbo-talk] specious generalizations...

[C. G. Estabrook]

This is simply false.  Right after 9/11 the Wall Street
Journal ran a series of articles about how even WSJ readers
(lawyers, bankers, etc.) in the Middle East supported the
announced goals of AQ (ending the sanctions against Iraq,
the oppression of the Palestinians, and US support for
oppressive governments in the Gulf) while they condemned AQ's
murderous actions. --CGE

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:22:58 +0100
>From: "James Heartfield" <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>  
>Subject: [lbo-talk] specious generalizations...  
>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>
>...The Al Qaeda inspired terrorism in Europe and the US, by
contrast, uses 
>violence in isolation from any popular struggle...
>... 
>It is not popular opposition to the war in Iraq, but the lack
of popular 
>support for the ideas of Al Qaeda that pushes its activists
into terrorism.