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Honestly, I've seen people kicked off the list for a lot less than this advocacy of imperial occupation. Where does this pass for Marxism these days? --- On Fri, 11/12/09, Rakesh Bhandari <[email protected]> wrote: From: Rakesh Bhandari <[email protected]> Subject: [Marxism] Afghanistan To: "jc" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 11 December, 2009, 20:57 ====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== I find it extraordinary that commentators insist that the Taliban poses no risk to anyone outside of Afghanistan. First this is not a war against the Pasthun. Karzai and NATO are going to extraordinary lengths to make concessions to Pashtuns to bring them into the government--you would think that some of these concessions would bother Marxists who have obviously lost any connection to Enlightenment and secular values. This is a war against ISI assets and rogue ISI groups. They have carried out several terrorist actions in South Asia--are people here really so parochial and racist not to know that? The Bush doctrine is not needed to justify a war against them. There is nothing preventative or even pre-emptive about this war. NATO is setting a trap so that they will now all come out of hiding to fight the new troop deployments, and they'll get their comeuppance. The idea that the NATO deployment will force the terrorists into hiding in Pakistan is the opposite of the truth. These terrorists are not cowards. The other option is to have the Indian military fight the war against the ISI backed Taliban territorial grabs, and the obvious consequences of that are not tolerable. There is also a need for these ISI backed Taliban in Afghanistan to be humiliated so that the reputation of this kind of perversely distorted Islamic ideology is severely degraded before these fundamentalists make Pakistan ungovernable. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/jayclinton88%40yahoo.ie Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
