[lbo-talk] Identity wars, was fartback

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 14:56:35 PDT 2005


On Monday, July 18, 2005 1:30 PM [PDT], Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Leigh Meyers wrote:
>
>> Why was the Cuban revolution led by a Columbia educated
>> lawyer, and a dentist(...in his homeland that's "doctor").
>
> People who blow themselves up in the course of blowing up others
> aren't leaders, they're footsoldiers.
>
> And it's pretty icky to compare the Cuban revolution to jihad. I
> think the Cuban revolution was a very good thing, and jihad a very
> bad thing. Drawing a comparison between the two is pretty icky.
>
> Doug
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I wasn't attempting a direct comparison.

Just point towards causation.

Leigh http://www.leighm.net



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