Re: NP Al Qaeda (was Re: re Re:
[email protected] Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:12:00 EDT
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--part1_182.a6b83db.2a521190_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 07/01/2002 1:08:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Isn't this, er, wrong? Weren't the September 11 attacks caused by Al Qaeda > men who were already in the US, some of them as residents, even citizens? > Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it was the previous US > Administration's (pseudo-Left Democrat) unwillingness or inability to > confront the looming horizon of terrorism which allowed the deliberate and > tactical "scattering", the heinous attacks themselves, and the conservative > political backlash we are now experiencing? Isn't the election and > increasing popularity of the more right wing governments in the West, and in > the East also, and the reversion to even more conservative policies and > leaders, due to the general public's lack of faith in "the Left's" stand on, > and ability and willingness to counter, terrorism? > > The analogy you make between the Lambton Worm scene in _M&D_ and the Vietnam > War is totally inapt as well. > > best > Coming out of your right-wing closet now? You seem to be as big a parrot of the National Review as you accuse Doug of being of Counterpunch.org! --part1_182.a6b83db.2a521190_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 07/01/2002 1:08:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: <BR> <BR> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Isn't this, er, wrong? Weren't the September 11 attacks caused by Al Qaeda <BR>men who were already in the US, some of them as residents, even citizens? <BR>Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it was the previous US <BR>Administration's (pseudo-Left Democrat) unwillingness or inability to <BR>confront the looming horizon of terrorism which allowed the deliberate and <BR>tactical "scattering", the heinous attacks themselves, and the conservative <BR>political backlash we are now experiencing? Isn't the election and <BR>increasing popularity of the more right wing governments in the West, and in <BR>the East also, and the reversion to even more conservative policies and <BR>leaders, due to the general public's lack of faith in "the Left's" stand on, <BR>and ability and willingness to counter, terrorism? <BR> <BR>The analogy you make between the Lambton Worm scene in _M&D_ and the Vietnam <BR>War is totally inapt as well. <BR> <BR>best <BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> <BR>Coming out of your right-wing closet now? <BR> <BR>You seem to be as big a parrot of the National Review as you accuse Doug of being of Counterpunch.org!</FONT></HTML> --part1_182.a6b83db.2a521190_boundary--