What should we expect. He even reaches out to Republicans and keeps people like Gates around. He's a reacher!
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2009-March/date.html http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2009-March/024185.html >>CB: Iraq and Afghanistan are not identical in that the 9/11 attackers were based in the latter. Although Bush distorted and exaggerated the response in the response to Afghanistan, that aspect is not a nothing. Obama has expressed a sense that is a basis for paring down Bush's overreaction to that legitimate aspect.<< Not so simple. The 9/11 perps based on the evidence we have been allowed to see were based in US, Canada and Europe, and out of Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Also, the war on Iraq was sold in part on the idea that nudge nudge wink wink everybody, Saddam Hussein was so evil, he just had to have something to do with that horrible unprecedented huge evil 9/11 against the US, poor victims. More than newly advocating what 'the west' sees as oppressive social practices, the Taliban usually managed to assert power in Afghanistan and Pakistan by acting as 'enforcers' of already entrenched social practices. They didn't invent such a harsh version of sharia. But like many puritanical forms of a a relatively old religion, they are actually a rather new development. In this case 'Deobandi', from India. -- Japan Higher Education Outlook http://japanheo.blogspot.com/ We are Feral Cats http://wearechikineko.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
