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

[c b]

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.

^^^
CB: Sure let it undermine US foreign policy in other countries, AND
take the wind out of  support for the war among US _voters_.  Win-win.