[lbo-talk] Lyndie England

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At 12:06 PM 9/29/2005, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>What are the car bombers doing that the French Resistance did not do?
>>The Justification of _any_ sort of attack against an illegal occupation
>>_or_ quislings to that occupation is a no-brainer.
>
>Yeah, if it were limited to those. No less than George Galloway, in my 
>interview with him, denounces car bombings of marketplaces and such as 
>ethically odious and politically counterproductive (though he allows that 
>some of them might be the work of US and/or British intelligence).
>
>Doug

erm. I don't know where Carrol's coming from. I honestly can't understand 
what he wrote. What I think is bizarre is that, if you denounce Lyndie 
England, then why not car bombers?

Carrol's explanation is that you denounce Lyndie b/c she's an agent of the 
occupation, but you don't denounce the car bombers because they are 
resisting US occupation? (I think it's a little more complicated than that.)

Is that what you were saying?

Me, I don't think we should bother getting het up and excited about any of 
them. We have a job to do and goals to strive for.  Getting all het up and 
excited denouncing Lyndie or the Car bombers seems like the kind of thing 
people do so they won't be embarrassed and prove their worthiness to the 
rightwing and right leaning elements on the left. Didn't you have some good 
things to say about that on another thread recently Carrol?