Sides? (was Re: the terrorist bombings in London
jbor at bigpond.com
jbor at bigpond.com
Fri Jul 8 03:44:56 CDT 2005
>
>> The G-8 leaders are meeting at Gleneagles to ratify plans to provide
>> further debt relief to African nations (those which aren't ruled by
>> corrupt despots and genocidal warlords), to discuss other ways of
>> easing African poverty, and to implement protocols aimed at reducing
>> global warming and long-term environmental degradation.
>
> So generous a view! The G8 leaders will agree to the least necessary
> to placate public opinion and preserve their nations' places in the
> heirarchy of the world. The celeb voiced pleas for them to apply a
> moral underpinning to their considerations are politically and
> historically ignorant acts of egotism. At least Bush was honest in
> clearly stating he was putting US interests first. (meaning US ruling
> class)
>
>
>> What's most disturbing about yesterday's terrorist attack on London is
>> that the jihadists who perpetrated the bombings and the protestors in
>> Edinburgh seem now to be on the same "side". Both groups were
>> attempting to derail the G-8 meeting and to hijack the agenda of those
>> talks.
>
>
> Snore.
> Rob - repeat after me
> "Because I attack your enemy does not mean I am your friend"
>
>
Sorry, the same old tired dogmatism and empty slogans just don't wash
any more. Read again what I wrote and put the straw man away. The point
is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to equate violent
terrorists with violent anarchists. In the long run it's only going to
strengthen and prolong the conservative stranglehold over First World
politics.
The other point I'd make is that neither the Islamic extremists nor
your mob are ever going to make the slightest difference to African
poverty or the future of the environment. These things don't even seem
to figure on the agenda: both groups come across as fanatics, reciting
worn-out cliches, obsessed by fantasies of destruction and revolution
and bringing down the power elite.
Whatever their motives, however they're coaxed into it, it's the G-8
bonzos who can make a difference. Compared to Geldof you're the one who
comes across as politically and historically naive, if not indeed
ignorant.
best
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