[lbo-talk] Re: Afghanistan [was: query: Arundhati Roy]

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 17:00:42 PST 2006


On 3/7/06, mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>But the bottom line, as Chris said, is that there was a jihadi
infrastructure in place in Afghanistan that posed an immediate and grave threat to the world. Antiwars never had a plan for dealing with it and this accounts for their lack of credibility on the issue. <

this repeats what you said before, without providing any extra logic or information to shore up your argument. Nor did it reply to what I wrote. BTW, "credibility" to whom? Oh well...

hmm... But the bottom line ... is that there was a militarist and aggressive infrastructure in place in the United States that poses an immediate and grave threat to the world. Antiwars never had a plan for dealing with it and this accounts for their lack of credibility on the issue. -- Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles



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