Re: [Marxism] 'The West sets Terrorists on Russia'...,

["M. Junaid Alam" <mjunaidalam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"...if it's indeed  that case that the points brought up in the article
are so easily

refutable then by all means refute them."

"Refute" them? Just because you post some  "analysis" from some
no-name website, all of a sudden it is deserving of some kind of "refuting"?
It's already been torn apart, first of all, and it's a mark of your own 
intellectual poverty
that you peddle third-rate articles from fourth-rate websites, which
are merely commentary anyway, to avoid actually having to defend your position 
directly.

You conjure up all this murky conspiracy theorizing about devious NATO interests
insidiously undermining Russia through some kind of Chechen prop. In your head
apparently one is only anti-imperialist when the imperialist is the United 
States.
This is most pathetic and rudimentary failure in logic. You can't even face up
to the fact that Russia leveled Grozny 10 years ago and has been brutalizing
its people for quite some time - you are like the Spartacists defending the
glorious Soviet liberation of Afghanistan, except this time around the
Great Russian Chauvinist has long since lost his "socialist" garb.

This is rendered all the more ridiculous by your purported defense of the 
Palestinians.
So what's the story? In Palestine suicide bombing happens because of Zionist 
colonialism,
but in Russia it's because of 72 virgins, or what? I'd really like to hear the 
rationale
behind this blatant hypocrisy.

No one really needs to "set terrorists" on Russia, since Russia does a splendid 
job
of setting them on itself. Unless you can prove that a US agency is financing
any actual group of Chechen rebels your contention is absurd at face value.
Last time I checked the US never exactly came rushing to the aid of the 
Chechens,
not when they were under heavy artillery siege a few years back, and certainly
not now.

Just because the neocons, on top of having no moral values whatsoever, are 
complete
opportunists vis. their stance on terrorism, doesn't obligate YOU to become 
equally self-
contradictory as well! They spit on Russia because they wanted to nuke the USSR 
back
during the Cold War and are still spiteful, true to their bloodthirsty nature. 
But a few
op-eds doesn't exactly _prove_ any concrete help - as if Basayev would accept! 
- provided by US
forces to the rebels.

And actually, I haven't had any beef with anyone in Marxmail in quite some time,
certainly not "99%" of stuff I post here as anyone browsing archives can tell.
My main contribution to the list right now is my main contribution to the 
radical
left in total: editing, running, and writing for the youth journal Left Hook. 
That's
better than reposting conspiracy theories authored by other people.




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