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Why is Blum holding back? If he were to be honest about the role of US imperialism, he would have to admit that the US created the entire Islamic world, as a way to undermine, er, the established western order so as to, I suppose, facilitate the work of its financial elites.
-----Original Message----- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism
by Bill Blum: http://www.killinghope.org/bblum6/aer140.html (Such breathtaking indifference to scholarly precision...)
--The first example of this was in 1979 when the United States began
covert operations in Afghanistan, six months before the Russians arrived, promoting Islamic fundamentalism across the southern tier of the Soviet Union against “godless communism”. All the al-Qaeda/Taliban shit then followed. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
