[lbo-talk] How Obama took over the peace movement

[C. G. Estabrook]

Exactly.  Remember how, after 9/11, these states and others issued shocked 
denunciations of terror while they sharpened their knives for their own 
dissidents, a new excuse at the ready.

Chris Doss wrote:
> 
> None of them want a messianic Sallafist country supporting Islamoid movements
> in the Caucasus or the 'Stans or among the Uighurs. Iran has the world's
> worst heroin problem. Iran wants Afghanistan pacified.
> 
> --- On Sat, 3/28/09, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How Obama
>> took over the peace movement To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Date: Saturday,
>> March 28, 2009, 10:39 PM On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Chris
>> Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> none of Afghanistan's neighbors want the US to leave
>>> [Afghanistan, specifically] Iran, Russia, and China
>> 
>> Do they all have the same reason? Or different reasons? This topic is not
>> much discussed in any venue I ordinarily visit.
>> 
>> Russia I could understand; after all, Zbig and Carter were
>> deliriously happy back when the Bear got his paw in the trap there a few
>> years ago. Trap on the other paw and all. But what about China and Iran?
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org