[lbo-talk] Islamofascism Awareness Week

[Jerry Monaco]

On 10/23/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 23, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote:
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> > The paretheses was misplaced.  Sorry.  Does that defeat the argument?
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> No. But the argument was defeated from the start, since it posits
> some force, presumably on the left and not in the bourgeoisie, that
> devotes "every breath" to the criticism of Iran. No such force
> exists. You would search in vain for any U.S. left outlet - print,
> electronic, organizational - that devotes more time or space to
> criticism of Iran than to criticism of U.S. foreign or domestic policy.

Most people I talk to in the U.S. know much about the crimes of Iran commits
but  nothing and little about the  monstrous crimes that U.S. commits and
our responsibility even for the  much lesser crimes that Iran commits.  In
the context of the usual war fever to concentrate any energy on the crimes
of Iran, and pretending as if those crimes are not "our" crimes, is
hypocrisy.  Why do leftists speak of Iran's crimes at all?  What do they
matter?  How will they change them?  How is it doing anything but buying
into the agenda of the our regime which has produced many or most of those
crimes and much worse in the first place?