Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 21:07:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Taliban apologetics (bullshit)



> 
> Are these actually Scott's points? I thought they
> was fwded by Scott

Well, I thought he was supporting those points.
I will admit I am "trigger happy"...I am really pissed
off at the vanguard left and their positions on this
question and lash out very quickly.

> 
> Anyways, I wonder: how do/should I/you/we 'oppose'
> both the Taliban and
> US intervention?

Well, I suppose I really should differentiate between
the Taliban and the terrorist attack.  These people
did
kill innocent people and they are very reactionary.
The vanguard left (which happens to have taken the
lead
in many anti-war coalitions) refuses to raise slogans
denouncing the terrorist action...I just dont buy the
line that the vanguard people espouse (but hide)
that America is the main enemy and are ultimately
responsible for what happened on September 11th.
I feel like the people of the world deserve an
explanation for the 6000 people who died on 9/11
and just blaming it ALL on US imperialism doesn't
work...not only is it simplistic thinking, it will
also alienate people who might be anti-war from the
movement.


> There's probably worse fates than being condemned by
> the New
> Zealand/Aotearoa section of the Liaison Committee of
> Militants for a
> Revolutionary Communist International (LCMRCI or
> CEMICOR).


No doubt there are worse fates...such as being blown
up
in the World Trade Center OR by one of the bombs that
the US military are dropping over Afghanistan now.


-Thomas
> 


===="The tradition of all the dead generations
 weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"

-Karl Marx

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