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