> > I have a question. Granted that some hundreds of millions of people have >> a real gripe against the U.S., and granted that they are utterly > > powerless to express that gripe in legitimate ways, what should they do? >> Those leftists who have labelled 911 a "crime against humanity" have > > objectively taken the position that any or all resistance to U.S. power >> is illegitimate. >> > > Carrol > >=========== >When gripes take on the scale and complexity of 9-11 the binary of >legitimacy and it's other are literally mangled and the Hobbesian >realm manifests itself -even in a post-Westphalian sense. > >Ian
The Empire has actively produced the world of an increasing number of failed and failing states -- a Hobbesian world -- undoing the work of nationalist and/or socialist modernizers on the periphery. The enduring war on freedom, along with other recent US interventions, is supposed to manage destructive fallouts of the Hobbesian world, but in the process they will likely multiply the number of failed and failing states in the foreseeable future. Add global deflation to the process, and we may see the Empire becoming its own grave-digger so to speak. How will Americans react to such development? How can US leftists make a difference? -- Yoshie * Calendar of Anti-War Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html> * Anti-War Organizing in Columbus Covered by the Media: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/media.html>
