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To: Texas_Longhorn
Good point about the Mujahedin--Trying to cram a long history into a short paragraph and cutting corners. Yes, it was the Mujahedin, forerunners of AlQuaeda, not the Taliban, who garned the support of the U.S. during the Cold War.
201 posted on 07/09/2002 10:56:53 AM PDT by commieprof
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To: commieprof
Yes, it was the Mujahedin, forerunners of AlQuaeda, not the Taliban, who garned the support of the U.S. during the Cold War.

Some Mujahedin became Al Qaeda, not all. To say that the Mujahedin were the forerunners of Al Qaeda is at best syntactically dubious, at worst intellectually dishonest.

His vision of a bottom-up, democratic socialism (not State socialism) is the tradition I stand in.

I hope you don't oppress prepositions like that in your formal writing. In any case, I must admit I am not terribly familiar with Trotskij's doctrine -- democracy is a form of government, and any government that exists within a land of fixed borders, has a permanent population, and is capable of international relations is, by definition, a state. For socialism to exist democratically, it must be enforced -- and socialism on the national scale must be enforced -- by a state, correct? Where does Trotskij's reasoning deviate from mine?

(Please forgive the un-Western spelling of 'Trotskij.' I just learned the Cyrillic spelling today, and my closer transliteration will help me remember it.)

223 posted on 07/09/2002 12:34:17 PM PDT by Caesar Soze
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