> It isn't a matter of "justifying" anything.
It most certainly is. When you offer support for, say, Hezbollah or the Iraqi insurgency or the NLF against U.S. imperialism, you are endorsing a nationalist solution to a problem. You really shouldn't be surprised when it rebounds in forms you don't like, such as Seth's extremely creepy question about citizenship. Such forms are not accidents or the results of leftists' moral failings; they are inscribed in nationalism from the beginning.
>It is a matter
> of solidarity, and the emptiness of "a" left that cannot
> recognize that solidarity is international or it is
> nothing.
"International," of course, means relations between nations. So much for "open borders." And solidarity, at least as you've advocated it in the past, is not some blanket affective connection between people: it's a choosing of a representative of "those people" and trucking your anti-imperialist lot with them.
>This is particularly important for leftists in
> the core -- U.S., Europe, Japan.
More nationalism.