Joel Wendland wrote: > > >> I too am safely tucked away here in the U.S. I made no claim to be anywhere > else. But I think my point that brave intellectuals in the west who seem to > support anything and everything that seems anti-imperalist because it is > violent has been made.
The content of "support" is a bit vague here. As far as I can tell all it means is "sit in one's chair earnestly wishing" that such and such will be the case in Iraq. There _is_ violence in Iraq. There will continue to be violence, ebbing and flowing but tending towards ever more violence, until all foreign troops are withdrawn unconditionally. There will very possibly be violence, a great deal of violence, after the troops withdraw. The longer troops remain, the more likely of great violence after they do withdraw. This is a statement of empirical fact, and nothing progressive forces in the west can do will change that fact. There is only one honorable course for "intellectuals" (or anyone else) in the west to follow: do all we can to force the withdrawal of foreign troops. U.S. out of Everywhere! Carrol
