[lbo-talk] We're all Hezbollah...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jul 24 08:43:43 PDT 2006


On Jul 24, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> Which, I understand, boils down to "the popular anger at the US, and
> also Israel, is growing." That might be true, but then so what?
> What is it
> that the disgruntled grunts can due other than burning a US flag in
> front of
> a US diplomatic mission? Blowing up a destroyer, or flying planes
> into high
> rise buildings are basically one-time stunts, rather difficult to
> replicate.

I've never understood why there haven't been suicide bombings in the U.S. - esp in NYC, where there's no shortage of Jewish-themed targets, from Temple Emanu-el to the Israeli-owned French bistro across the street - that could easily stand in as symbols of Israel.

Doug



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