On Apr 21, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Every thinking person in the world knows that, notwithstanding
> selective outrage against this or that crime outside the West that
> they display on cue, most people of the West not only do not despise
> but tolerate, even vote for, a filthy primitive social system that has
> its soldiers invade many countries, supports brutal client states,
> employs death squads, etc., raping, mutilating, and killing untold
> numbers of men, women, and children, not just when they don't know but
> even when they do know at least a little of that's what's happening,
> as in the case of the Iraq War. (The same system also locks up
> millions and executes many at home, in the case of the USA.)
There's hardly a person on this list who'd disagree with this. But it's another thing entirely to go on about Ahmadinejad recovering the anti-imperialist message of Khomeini. It discredits the fight against imperialism to associate it with a thug like Khomeini.
Doug