[lbo-talk] Taliban destroy coed school

[Travis Fast]

I am sure, but my response was tongue-in-cheek. The point is that there 
are many reasons one may support a group even if one does not like its 
politics or even detests those politics. I suspect any lefty that does 
support the afgan "resistance" does so because they feel it is more 
important that US foreign policy fail then coeducation succeed in 
Afghanistan. Not a particularly nice trade-off but it is symptomatic of 
a type of calculation that gets made in an imperfect world. Similar such 
calculations are being made about Iraq as well I suspect. Now I am sure 
there are some whaky groups who really believe that any force aligned 
against the US is necessarily good but that just speaks to simplistic 
sense of politics which is not cornered by the left, centre or right.

Travis

Chris Doss wrote:


>Technically, they weren't the Taliban then.
>
>FWIW I have it on the authority of somebody In The
>Know (former Sov. diplomat) that at the time the
>Soviets tried to convince the US that they were
>fighting in fact an American war in Afghanistan at the
>time against a common Islamic threat.
>
>--- Travis Fast <tfast at yorku.ca> wrote:
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>>I guess that is why the US state supported the
>>taliban and the glorious 
>>Afgan resistance during the eighties: Lefty utopians
>>with family values?
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>>TF
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