--- On Sun, 3/29/09, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How Obama took over the peace movement To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 7:40 AM
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
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