> It's funny to hear Charles Brown characterize Yoshie's current
> thinking as fresh, since it sounds a lot like a recap of the stuff
> much of the Iranian left thought in the late 1970s. (I posted chunks
> of Val Moghadam's essay on precisely that topic here a few weeks
> ago.) I.e., the clerics were ok, anti-imperialism trumps all,
> liberals are fellow travelers of imperialism, etc.
And during that same period, didn't much of the radical Western left support the Red Army wiping out about a million Afghans, the majority of whom, I'm guessing, were Muslims? Now they're seen as the Afghan "resistance."
I know, I know -- Soviet policy was more progressive than US imperialism, as they were trying to establish a secular base in a backward and very poor country. So, if a major "socialist" state was currently bombing Taliban strongholds (along with the inevitable civilian dead), we'd be behind it?
Dennis