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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43002)	10/31/2002 3:40:52 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) of 50167

The American left... A Purdue professor said that "there is no ground to be certain" that America and Israel aren't behind the 9/11 attacks. The favorite posture of many American leftists, he said, is "standing as a righteous minority, brave and determined, amid the timid, the corrupt, and the wicked. A posture like that ensures at once the moral superiority of the left and its political failure." He said the left needs to discard its "ragtag Marxism" and its belief that America is corrupt beyond remedy. "a left that thinks of Osama bin Laden as a slightly misguided anti-imperialist. . . ." "forced a lot of people on the left to confront their blind spot, their on-bended-knee obeisance to anyone in the Third World who posed as a 'liberator,' from Mao to Castro to Arafat and the Taliban." "the inability to distinguish between America's sporadic blundering depredations" and Hitler's Germany usnews.com

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