Re: WTC Bombing

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Shemano wrote:
> As I spend way too much of my time reading the posts on the list (and
> occasionally LBO), I am compelled to comment.
>
> The majority of the comments are what I expected.  Utter moral confusion.

as far as I can tell, for you "utter moral confusion" means disagreeing
with your hawkish viewpoint. If there is "moral confusion" on pen-l, it's
because people actually have disagreements about this issue (though
_everybody_ that I've read denounced the bombings).

> ... And I stress we.  The Left faces a dilemma.  The Left worldview, which
> attempts to fit everything into an economic class issue, simply cannot
> process what we are facing.

you forget the importance of gender and ethic/race issues, not to mention
imperialism, in contemporary leftist thought.

> ... Those who are my enemy are attacking the underlying
> platform that both you and I depend upon.  If you do not agree, you are my
> enemy.

that's exactly the way zombie-fanatics like Osama bin Laden think. Anyone
with doubts is a heretic and thus an enemy. Given what you said elsewhere
in this missive (that I elided) those heretics should be killed.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine