[lbo-talk] Fidel: El asesinato de Bin Laden/The assassination of Bin Laden

[Peter Fay]

I put Diem (and Trujillo - a slightly reviled anti-imperialist) on this list
for a deliberate reason: US political assassinations are not about executing
leftists or heroes, but about executing anyone who is inconvenient to the
empire, regardless of victim's ideology, and regardless of the execution's
violation of bourgeois law. I repeat that it is important to make this issue
writ large - not because many in the US (especially many liberals and
leftists) understand it, but because it is of large impact in the rest of
the world and the calling to account of illegality destabilizes and tends to
undermine US foreign policy. (Where's Chomsky when you need him?)  Note that
it has grown many-fold bigger in just the few days since I pointed it out -
in Asia, Middle East, etc.

And the UN is now investigating - another great opportunity to thrash the US
in a large forum.  I could be wrong, but I believe this issue is much bigger
in the world than many in the US realize.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On May 5, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Peter Fay wrote:
>
> > Violation of bourgeois legality, though convenient for Obama, ought be
> > highlighted, rather than dismissed. Particularly in light of the US
> history
> > of assassinations from Lumumba, through Guevara, Qassim, Trujillo, Diem,
> and
> > the dozens upon dozens of attempts on Castro, and even today, on Gaddafi
>
> Did those guys orchestrate an attack on the U.S.?
>
> And it's pretty icky to see Diem and Guevara on the same list.
>
> Doug
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Peter Fay
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