Hooray for Carrol Cox, a somebody if ever there were one!

-Jon

On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 12:48  PM, Carrol Cox 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
>