[lbo-talk] Anti-"Appeasement" Rhetoric: From Communism to a Caliphate (was Pat Buchanan on Ahmadinejad)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Sep 29 10:57:46 PDT 2007


On Sep 29, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> I haven't heard anything from you in the department of criticism of
> Iran that I haven't heard from the White House, Congress, corporate
> media, etc.

I won't call you a liar, because that would be impolitic. So instead I'll say that you've become such a one-dimensional propagandist that you'll twist the facts until they fit your purpose.


>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood>
>>>
>>> The Muslim Brotherhood advocates the creation of Islamic governments
>>> eventually unified in Caliphate
>>>
>>
>> They don't? Osama bin Laden doesn't long for that?
>>
>
> What's the chance of the second coming of the Caliphate? You wanna
> bet? By my calculation its odds are as low as the second coming of
> the Austro-Hungarian Empire. So I know I will win if you bet on the
> other side.

That wasn't the issue. But go ahead, change the subject.

Doug



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