Carroll doesn't see significant differences in grades of evil.
How sad!  I'd feel a lot safer in a room with Pat R than with
UBL.
==Dan


At 12:48 PM 2/13/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Daniel Pearlman wrote:
> >
> >   You bring up India, where
> > Hindus and Muslims continue to kill each other (and please don't
> > blame this on the Brits!),
>
>The idea of partition was originally a British idea -- for a century the
>main independence forces in India has simply taken a united India for
>granted. After the horrors of the partition (and Gandhi also is partly
>to blame -- his 'non-violent resistance" strategy depended inherently on
>a focus on a small elite and the depoliticization of the great mass of
>the population) -- anyhow, after those horrors, and in the midst of the
>U.S. launched Cold War, with the U.S. forcing every nation to "choose
>sides," it would have been a miracle for the present bitter divisions
>not to occur. I don't see much to choose among the BJP, Bin Laden, and
>Pat Roberson's movement.
>
>Type in "Chip Berlet" in a google search and you will have an immense
>amount of material listed on various far-right movements around the
>world.
>
>The U.S. has succeeded in destroying all secular and left forces in the
>Middle East (beginning with one of the great crimes of the 20th century,
>the overthrow of Mossedegh in the early '50s), leaving only reactionary
>Islamist forces as a center of resistance to western savagery.
>
>Carrol