NP - Some Left

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In a message dated 4/28/2003 11:55:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
fqmorris at yahoo.com writes:


> As someone who has done a good deal of marching and public speaking about
> Vietnam, Chile, South Africa, Palestine and East Timor in his time (and 
> would
> do it all again), I can only hint at how much I despise a Left that thinks 
> of
> Osama bin Laden as a slightly misguided anti-imperialist. (He actually says 
> he
> wants to restore the old imperial caliphate and has condemned the
> Australian-led international rescue of East Timor as a Christian plot 
> against
> Muslim Indonesia). Or a Left that can think of Milosevic and Saddam as 
> victims.
> 
> Christopher Hitchens
>     --The Washington Post   20 October 2002
> 

Of course there is no such "Left." Hitchens is attempting to justify
his own veering to the Right by creating a "straw movement." If
anything, Osama is the CIA's and Bush's best friend, and the Left's
worst nightmare: a near perfect rationalization for tyranny, allowing,
for example, the inner junta to whisper the name Daniel "this is not 
a bigot" Pipes into the ear of The Dauphin- busy, no doubt, at cup 
and ball- among other diversions, while your freedom smolders.

http://www.skwerm.com/mchorner/pipe/

respectfully 
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